Artistic work and curatorial projects.
A portfolio of Student Work, my Artist’s Statement, and my Teaching philosophy can be accessed from the menu to the right.
Experiments in Reductive Video
This body of work entitled “Reductive Video” borrows the choice to depict changes in movement (either as individual frames or wholly contained in a single image) and applies it to the technical rendering of images… (read the full project statement)
Mirror Minus employs visual analysis of live video footage; changes in color are continuously rendered on a pixel-by-pixel basis to create a projection, which re-presents, mirrors, and documents the participants’ impacts upon the space.
Mirror Minus
documentation of “Yoga in the Gallery” and captured still
Rosewood Art Center, Kettering, OH
05-02-2014
Mirror Minus
documentation
12’ x 9’ (projection)
2014
Interactive Installation
For Love represents the reduction of a video into a single print. Changes in motion and movement are layered to create impressions of these on-screen activities. The source material for this exploration was appropriated from online amateur pornographic video-sharing websites.
For Love
84” x 40”
(15 images each 13.6” x 10.2”)
2010
Reductive Video Image / Archival Inkjet Print on uncoated Rives BFK
For Love (089-b), For Love (071)
13.6” x 10.2”
(details from For Love )
2010
Reductive Video Image / Archival Inkjet Print on uncoated Rives BFK
additional detail images
After Muybridge, After Marey is an homage to the work of Eadweard Muybridge, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Thomas Eakins, bringing their ideas into the 21st century by highlighting the changes in motion and movement as experienced and recorded by technology.
After Muybridge, After Marey
Dimensions Variable
(images depicted are at 24” x 13.5”)
2010
Video Loop & Archival Inkjet Prints on Uncoated Rives BFK
(detail)
Exhibition loop from “After Muybridge / After Marey”
TRT 3:29
2010
Video Loop
(detail)
Female Cyclist – Left Lateral View, 2009
21” x 11”
2010
Reductive Video Image / Archival Inkjet Print on uncoated Rives BFK
Pixel-Lapse
Pixel-Lapse combines the temporal nature of long exposure photography and the precise organization of the digital matrix, creating an image one pixel at a time.
(Pixel-Lapse images created by visitors to the exhibitions and at home available at pixel-lapse.com)
Pixel-Lapse Photo Booth
documentation: MICA, Decker Gallery 2009
Dimensions Variable
2009
Interactive Installation (computer, webcam, monitor, Arduino & electronics, printer)
Pixel-Lapse Photo Booth
2008 / 2009-present
TRT: 2:00
Video documentation of the Pixel-Lapse photo booth installed.
Pixel-Lapse Prints
Chicago O’Hare International Airport – Gate B8 – Looking North, 02/02/08, 1000px/s
9” x 12” (framed 14” x 17”)
18” x 24” (framed 22” x 28”)
2008
pixel-lapse (experimental digital process) / Archival inkjet print
Internet Meme Flip Books
The Internet Meme Flip Books aim to place popular internet memes in the hands of viewers. This project explores the history of the moving image contrasted with the ubiquity of internet materials.
Internet Meme Volume 1
Dramatic Chipmunk
4″ x 1.75″ x 1.25″
2010
Hand-bound flip book printed with Dr. Mike Ware’s “New Cyanotype” on Fabriano Artistico.
Internet Meme Flip Books
Gallaudet University, February 2014
Curatorial Projects
Hughes Remix
The re-presentation of archival images in part or as a whole has become a standard in contemporary photographic practice. Methods are as varied as the artists themselves from Rauschenberg’s inclusion of media images in his prints to Levine’s re-appropriation of FSA photographs and from Fontcuberta’s insertion of himself into archival images to Umbrico’s excising of images from the collective archive.
In conjunction with the 2014 SPE National Conference theme “Collaborative Exchanges: Photography in Dialogue”, The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery and the Department of Visual Arts, at UMBC offered the images of the Hughes Company Glass Negatives Collection for reinterpretation and reinvention.
Construction: 1922 / 2011
created with images from the Hughes Collection, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Full archive of images and project description at the Hughes Remix Tumblr:
http://hughes-remix.tumblr.com
A short article about the Hughes Remix project was included in Socially Engaged Art Journal. April 2014: http://www.sociallyengagedartjournal.org/2014/04/the-hughes-remix-project/
Palimpsest
A Washington Project for the Arts Coup d’Espace project
curated by Steven H. Silberg and Neil C. Jones
October 12 – November 29, 2012
2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
In the tradition of the palimpsest, those pieces of parchment and vellum (scraped clean for reuse) promise that something once existed beneath its contemporary surface. Yet, only through technological investigation is that promise realized. Palimpsest asks its viewers to consider the scriptio inferior (the sub-text or in this case, perhaps, the imago inferior—the sub-image) of the black and white graphic applied to the stripped-clean surface of an original artwork.
Exploring Julee Holcombe’s image at Palimpsest
participating artists,
additional exhibition images,
link to the catalog & statement
Steven H Silberg 