Kevin Schmidt: Nosotros Are The Robots Lights Upwards The Vag Alongside Interactive Installations
Friday 13 July 2018
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| Kevin Schmidt, 'dIY HIFI, 2014 - 16, wood Lowther DX55 speakers, DIY kit metro amplifier, cables, hardware. Courtesy of the Artist as well as Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver |
Kevin Schmidt: We Are the Robots
Jul 14–Oct 28, 2018
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby
DIY-Inspired Creations Unveiled at the VAG
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel interactive installation happening at the Vancouver Art Gallery this summertime volition accept DIY-er's as well as nerdy audiophiles alike converging to run into BC-based Multimedia artist, Kevin Schmidt's interactive installation, We Are the Robots.
The exhibition spotlight's Schmidt, who draws on aspects of conceptual as well as functioning fine art spell embodying the do-it-yourself (DIY) sensibilities of an amateur inventor. The title, We Are The Robots is inspired yesteryear the root of the give-and-take robot, inwards Czech robota, important "forced work". Showcasing Schmidt's exploration of DIY noesis production, the presentation points at the utopian aspects of volume noesis distribution that nosotros run into over the Internet, similar how-to videos on YouTube for example, as well as the pressures to commodify as well as develop noesis that circulates through this system. Schmidt uses this interactive electronic fine art installation to pose questions virtually the nature of DIY projects as well as its' behave on on both the surroundings as well as our values.
"What I'm actually interested in, as well as what I desire to pick out attending to is, yes, it's actually bully to practise all this DIY materials but it's all based on resources extraction as well as I desire to ask, "What are the values of that? What are the relative values virtually the means we're running things? I don't actually accept the answer, but it's something I desire to inquire questions about, or people to retrieve virtually or problematize. I'm presenting this torso on how to practise this, but essentially it's on a platform that's trying to capitalize on the production of knowledge. Its non merely for free, thence that's 1 affair I'm trying to highlight, as well as the other affair is the production as well as ability to run all this stuff. It likewise has drawbacks. That's why inwards the audiophile I accept a champaign recording I made on the Peace River of an expanse that volition last flooded yesteryear the Site C Dam; thence it's like, where all these birds nest as well as when they alluvion it, that habitat volition last gone, the surroundings volition last real different." Kevin Schmidt
For a to a greater extent than in-depth await at the exhibit, melody into our IGTV channel HERE to run into our total video interview amongst Kevin Schmidt on site at the VAG !
The exhibit is separated into 3 unique installations.
DIY HIFI, 2014-16
wood, Lowther DX55 speakers, DIY kit metro amplifier
cables, hardware. Courtesy of the Artist as well as Catriona Jeffries
Bring your favourite vinyl as well as sense well information you lot may accept never heard earlier inwards this interactive makeshift audiophile listening room. Comprised of gigantic stereo speakers, a kit metro amp as well as a "sweet spot" listening chair, Schmidt has reimagined the refined sense of audiophile listening (typically presented inwards mortal domestic settings), every bit populace sculpture. The walls inwards the room are likewise business office of the exhibit, where Schmidt has built acoustic diffusers using woods remnants from cabinetry reno's.
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RGB Beg Cycle, 2018
styrofoam model, RGB lighting, DMX controllers
customized recording software, MIDI keyboards, computer
Courtesy of the Artist as well as Catriona Jeffries
If you lot hap to last passing yesteryear the Gallery outside, anyone tin terminate run into some other of Schmidt's interactive inventions, the fluorescent, multi-coloured LED lite strips aligning the Gallery's facades corresponding to notes played on electronic keyboards within that are installed inwards the 3rd flooring galleries. Reminiscent of retro video games, the installation is programmed inwards such a means that whenever in that place is a lapse inwards the interaction, the installation volition start to lite upward as well as play, luring 1 to come upward as well as play (from both within as well as exterior of the gallery).
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How to Make an Off-Grid Hydroelectric Light Show, 2018
direct get washing machine, hose, cables, battery, inverter,
modular synthesizer, lights, video
Courtesy of the Artist as well as Catriona Jeffries
Featuring a novel video as well as sculptural run which involves the clever reconfiguration of a repurposed washing machine to generate plenty electricity capable of producing a lite present inwards a wilderness setting. The play betwixt modular synthesizers as well as surround sounds likewise references the Youtube genre of performers, some amongst large online followings, who laid an idyllic landscape every bit the backdrop to a synthesizer's production of soundscapes modulated yesteryear a disembodied hand. Click here for the how-to video.
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"Kevin Schmidt harnesses his curiousity as well as passion for DIY structure to exceed the logic of the everyday. The uncomplicated genius of Kevin's inventions as well as the dramatic natural settings inwards which he ofttimes presents them has inspired many fans. With this presentation, visitors volition accept the chance to unwrap his creations similar never earlier inwards an exciting hands-on as well as interactive way, within as well as exterior the gallery. Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Schmidt get-go gained attending inwards 2002 for Long Beach Led Zep, a single-channel video where he is featured playing guitar lines from Led Zeppelin's 1971 hit, "Stairway to Heaven". Using a gasoline powered generator as well as Marshall amp, he performs amongst the backdrop of Vancouver Island's picturesque Long Beach. Since then, Schmidt created the epic work, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Sigh inwards the Northwest Passage (2010), placing a large cedar billboard inscribed amongst text from the New Testament's Book of Revelations on frozen surfaces of the Northwest Passage. Schmidt likewise produced High Altitude Balloon Harmless Amateur Radio Equipment (201), inwards which he fastened a photographic tv camera onto a homemade conditions balloon to capture the atmosphere's upper limits.
Kevin Schmidt: We Are the Robots
Jul 14–Oct 28, 2018
Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby
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Also opening inwards July at the Vancouver Art Gallery: Ayumi Goto as well as Peter Morin: how practise you lot send the land? Stay tuned for a send service coming soon!