DENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY - "Cloud Seeding"

Public Art Installation for the Green Valley Ranch Library in Denver, CO

Cloud Seeding processes patron's search terms and inquiries to call up a spectrum of associative images, quotes and information drawn from the library's collection. The result will be an ever-shifting real-time visualization of the library's day-to-day usage – and of the collective consciousness created through the community's participation in its local library. In progess. Installation in 2010. MORE INFO > > >

YOU ARE SPINNING

Public Art Installation for the UCCS Foucault Pendulum
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO

Finalist for national RFP, 2009
An interactive video + audio installation to accompany the Foucault Pendulum in UCCS's new Science + Engineering building.
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FOUND GROUND

Multimedia Installation: urban projections / sound / text
September 17 - 20 2008, Providence, RI

Erik Carlson with Erik Gould & Erica Carpenter
Large-scale film projections for vacant lots in Providence's downtown district: Found film fragments interacting with brief fragments of text and sound, asking us to re-imagine these urban voids. MORE INFO > > >

Funded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

MOCKING BIRD

Interactive Audio Installation
Fall 2008, various locations, RI

A new composition and interactive site-specific audio installation, based around electronic analysis, manipulation and interpretation of field recordings of Rhode Island's indigenous songbirds. More info soon...

Funded by a Contemporary Works Grant from the LEF Foundation.

TOUCH PIECES v.1

Recycled Audio-Video Object
2009, Fidelity Investments / Providence Art Club "Greenworks" Exhibit

Created from a discarded Kodak Brownie camera, found super-8 film footage, and found and reprocessed audio, this multimedia piece addresses memory, loss, and documentation. MORE INFO > > >

STRANGELOOP:

An Ethereal Walking Tour of Providence's North Burial Ground
Summer 2008 (& ongoing) Providence, RI LINK to STRANGELOOP > >

A self-guided geo-tagged and web-based walking tour of various curiousities in Providence's oldest cemetery. By Erik Carlson + Erik Gould
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Strangeloop was part of the Cryptic Providence art installation, funded by the Rhode Island Foundation & Providence Parks Department.

LOW REZ / HI FI:

Interactive Public Art Installation (with HY Architecture)
1110 Vermont Avenue Washington DC ( map > > > )
Fall 2007 MORE INFO > > >

- Receives honorable mention in the 2009 IMEB Bourges competition
- Winner of Boston Society of Architects AIA award, 2007
- Featured at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial, 2006-7
- Watch a video of the finished installation on YouTube: L I N K > > >
- Featured in Architectural Record Nov. 2007: READ ARTICLE > > >

alt - Space

Multimedia Performance Series at the Cormack Planetarium
Museum of Natural History, Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI

April - May + November 2007
alt-SPACE was created by AREA C as a way to present experimental & textural electronic music in unique venues, establishing a dialogue between sound + space. Funded by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. MORE INFO > >

Cloud Cover - Providence Plaza

Interactive Public Art Installation
Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI

Finalist for National RFP, 2007
Designed by SINGLE speed DESIGN with AREA C
Sound Design: AREA C / Erik Carlson
MORE INFO (link to SINGLE speed DESIGN site) > > >

BASE: Advancing a Post-Military Landscape

A Multi-Media Documentation of two former naval bases in North Kingstown, RI

By Erik Carlson + Erica Carpenter
Completed in 2000
Funded by the RI Council for the Humanities
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CALL IT DEMOCRACY
Soundtrack for feature-length documentary

Completed 2005
Directed by Matt Kohn
Soundtrack by AREA C

"i" THE MOVIE
Soundtrack contributions for feature-length documentary

Completed 2006
Directed by Raphael Lyon & Andres Ingoglia
Soundtrack material by AREA C
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