For the past two months I have been collaborating with Domani Turner-Ward on a sculpture to display the data from her investigation of chemistry in the sediments at the local shore. The studies we have been look at include measurements of nitrite, nitrate, and phosphate in transect extending perpendicular to the water line. These ionic …
Thomas Asmuth and Sara Gevurtz are exhibiting new work at the Lost in the Weeds exhibition at ATHICA – Athens Institute for Contemporary Art. Untitled (water data and sensor-driven abstractions), 2021 is an experimental video combining field recordings with signals from water quality sensors. The experimental video loop contains footage shot on a fieldwork expedition on …
Jose and I finished the custom lightning and live coding tools for the Le Code Gálvez performance. Here is some documentation. LeCodeGalvez from VertexZenit on Vimeo.
once again we were out in the field with the STEAMing the River interdisciplinary project team this past weekend. we have been doing a seasonal recording of seven stations from the Escambia Bay to the Gulf. the surface water camera dolly (aka ‘the rig’) is doing fairly well. we performed some emergency repairs the week …
Quietly and in the background, the Third Factioneers, have been making arrangements to launch a research initiative. The current show PeaceCraft is the first project to be done under this new structure. Third Faction Institute is research collective organized as a corporate entity. The partners are artists, theorists, educators and technologists that I have worked …
Turbidity Paintings is aa collaboration with my colleague Sara Gevurtz in underwater imaging using two open source submersible ROVs (OpenRov). The project has gotten some interest in art/science communities and hopefully i will be announcing some other exciting news soon. it has also garnered some attention by environmental science and i have a research assistant …
I gave a talk last week for the Experience UWF Downtown Lecture Series titled Art as an Exo-Discipline. It was an tremendous honor, thanks to Dr. Ford and everyone who contributed to the opportunity. I tried to unravel the methods of the interdisciplinary work I do. I attempted to discuss philosophy, the crises in working as a …
I am a collaborator in the international public art project titled valley 2 valley, a sculptural project co-commissioned as an international biennial partnership with ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, USA and the 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (Salda Verkhnaya, Russia). The work centers around the two tech centers-Silicon Valley in CA and the Titanium …
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As part of the v2v co-commission, I have been asked by the members of the Russian team to design the booth for a preview of the project at the trade-show Innoprom. Here are my designs: although I was not able to convince the Russian the construction crew to cut a ‘sun’ into the ceiling, I am very …
We are The Third Faction, a collective of avatars with a shared interest in exposing biased power structures in virtual environments. Founded in 2008 in a temporary autonomous zone located in the land of Azeroth, we set forth to develop a democratized, non-hierarchical governance. The very act of labelling our group “The Third Faction” demonstrates …