Waste_Generation
Animation & Multiples
2010-2011
Waste_Generation is the second in a series of five animations based on Course of Empire, by Hudson River School painter Thomas Cole. The series explores the cultural framework through which we view landscape.
Focusing on links between plant life and pattern, ornament, design, and construction, it is about the tension between creative and destructive impulses. As we transition from industrial to digital culture, civilization continues to generate huge amounts of waste. At the same time, the creative and productive acts that generate that waste are dazzlingly and essentially human.
Music/Sound Design by Joe Arcidiacono
Review from the LA Times, March 2011
Waste_Generation from chris doyle on Vimeo.
Waste_Generation, Installation View, 2010, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York. Photo: Olya Vysotskaya
Evergrow, Installation View, 2010, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York. Photo: Olya Vysotskaya
Smokescreen, 2010. Duratrans on LED Light Box, 15"x24", Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.
Green/Green, 2010. Duratrans on LED Light Box, 15"x24", Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York.
Domus, 2010. Still from Waste_Generation.
Unfolded, Digital files transferred to re-positionable fabric, dimensions variable, 2010. Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York. Photo: Olya Vysotskaya
History of the Twentieth Century, Installation View, 2010, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York. Photo: Olya Vysotskaya