If, like me, you steer clear of cineplexes and big budget, overblown, 3D flicks like Avatar and Clash of the Titans, you can still don a pair of goofy, cardboard glasses and get some impressive digital effects at Ouroboros: The History of the Universe at Soho's ISE Cultural Foundation. Video artist Ali Hossaini teamed up with SWEATSHOPPE artists Blake Shaw and Bruno Levy to produce over 30,000 images that "combine to tell the story of cosmic evolution from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga in an immersive 3D video environment generated by SWEATSHOPPE's own software," (from exhibit's press release). The "animated holograms, created by seven channels of video, within a 2,000 square foot gallery" were inspired by Hossaini's studies of "the psychology of vision" and SWEATSHOPPE's "interest in the hypnotic, meditative and mind-altering potential of the moving image."
The dark gallery features one long, floor-to-ceiling projection flashing varying images of the solar system, war, hospitals, numbers, dinosaurs, and much more while three slightly smaller scale videos show colorful, kaleidoscopic, morphing shapes shooting off the walls. The dizzingly trippy videos successfully deliver SWEATSHOPPE's "hypnotic, meditative and mind-altering" moving images that you cannot take your 3D bespectacled eyes off of. Ouroboros is a cool, mesmerizing acid trip minus the drugs. Learn more at iseny.org, Hossaini's website at artlab.tv, and at SWEATSHOPPE.org. Through April 23rd. Extended through April 30th!
Thank you for your coverage, Art Hag. The exhibition run has been extended one more week to Friday, 30 April 2010.
KJ Baysa, M.D.
Exhibition Curator
Posted by: KJ Baysa, M.D. | 04/14/2010 at 07:49 PM