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<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Moeller</strong><br />
Brian Slattery
Short Biography<br />
--Trained as an architect<br />
--Studied at the College of Applied<br />
Sciences in Frankfurt & the<br />
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna<br />
--1990: Professor at State College of<br />
Design in Karlsruhe<br />
--2001: Moved to the US<br />
--Currently a professor at UCLA's<br />
Design Media Arts school<br />
http://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=3
Audio Grove (1997)<br />
"This forest of vertical steel posts is<br />
an interface through which light and<br />
sound can be physically experienced<br />
and controlled. Visitors touching the<br />
posts can evoke a soundscape which<br />
always results in a harmonic whole<br />
whatever the conceivable<br />
combination of interactions." (video)<br />
Link: Harry Bertoia's Untitled Sound<br />
Sculpture<br />
Later work: On Air (2003)
dePictured (Bitwall 4) (2001)<br />
"Up close they appear as an<br />
abstract assembly of small<br />
pieces. But using the gallery<br />
lighting system the images of the<br />
mens’ faces became visible from<br />
a distance." (video)<br />
Link: Chuck Close's<br />
prosopagnostic portraits<br />
Later work: Pushing (2010)
Cheese (2003)<br />
"...the piece creates a concert<br />
of alert signals within an<br />
ambience of forced<br />
friendliness and irritating<br />
melancholy telling that the<br />
performance of sincerity is<br />
hard work."<br />
"On camera, six actresses each<br />
try to hold a smile for as long as<br />
they could, up to one and half<br />
hours."<br />
(video)<br />
Link: Jenna Mourey, "How to<br />
trick people into thinking<br />
you're good looking"
News Reader (2006)<br />
"A transparent bit-map painting of<br />
a moment frozen in time,<br />
capturing four citizens reading<br />
magazines during a bus ride."<br />
(video)<br />
Link: Joep Verhoeven's Lace<br />
Fences<br />
Later work: Hands (2010)
Daisy (2008)<br />
"A robotic arm randomly moves a<br />
cargo ship propellor made of<br />
fiberglass in the air. Videocameras<br />
embedded in the base of the<br />
sculpture capture the presence of<br />
passers-by allowing Daisy to move<br />
and face her viewers." (video)<br />
Link: Robotlab's Der<br />
Bibelschreiber
Shhh...<br />
“Over time, the sculpture will fill up<br />
with the notes and memories of the<br />
Walnut Creek community.”<br />
"A total of 3,960 empty sketchbooks<br />
in 12 shades of gray are placed in a<br />
2-story tall bookshelf. The spines of<br />
the books create the image of a<br />
librarian asking for silence." (video)<br />
Link: SOUR, "Hibi no neiro"