Screenbathing
Adam Tinkle
Jan 20 - Feb 12
What if we imagined our digital screens as sources of elemental energy and light–forces which may or may not prove salutary? Screenbathing fills the theater with an installational forest of such screens, inviting contemplation of the lives we lead on and off them, and of the light and color they cast upon our lives.
The exhibition space will be activated periodically with public programming to become a gathering place designed for embodied exploration, collaborative exchange, and collective imagining.
Programming
They Shoot Lasers, Don’t They? Art/science Talk and Performance
Thurs, Jan 6, 7pm
In this pre-exhibition teaser, Screenbathing artist Adam Tinkle and audio research scientist/electronic musician Joe Mariglio present an evening of research, invention and sonic discovery around the use of lasers as microphones. Cold War spies were said to have pointed lasers at windows to listen to otherwise unrecordable conversations inside, but today, laser microphony is hardly known or remembered – even though it can be useful for detecting sounds too quiet for ordinary microphones, at greater distances, and in unusual media, such as fluids. Working together as They Shoot Lasers, Don’t They? since 2014, Joe and Adam have presented rumbling, raucous performances that combine Joe’s handbuilt laser microphones with the tactile heave of low-frequency sound, dancing dishes of water, and cymatic projections, at venues including Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics and NYU’s Waverly Project. Stay after the performance for a Q&A and hands-on demo of the laser instruments, and snag some tips if you’re interested in building your own.
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Opening Reception, Collective A/V Bath, and Artist Talk
Thurs Jan 20 6-8pm, 7 pm Artist Talk
Celebrate the opening of Screenbathing with a collective A/V bath and screen-taming ritual offered by exhibiting artist Adam Tinkle, followed by an informal gallery talk and a conversation about screenlife, screenlight, and the demands that new technologies place on our speculative and spiritual faculties.
Personalized A/V baths
An opportunity to explore and maybe alter your relationship to screenlight, through a one-on-one, artist-guided experimental
available by appointment only on selected Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the exhibition run click below for available timeslots.
Artist Reception
Jan 28, 6-8 pm, TNO
Screenbathing Closing Performance with Seven Count and Special Guests
Feb 12
Musical trio Seven Count features Screenbathing exhibiting artist Adam Tinkle (strings and reeds), with fellow multidisciplinary artist-musicians Jake Nussbaum (drums and percussion) and Troy’s own Angus McCullough (brass and voice). With a collaboration rooted in improvisational acoustic and electronic music that has yielded 4 album releases to date, their work has expanded its scope since 2016 to include gallery installations, publications, a mobile pirate radio station, a sonic tea ceremony, and the 7 Count Real Deck, a set of cards for divination and creative strategy. Sit or lie down amidst Seven Count’s sonic survival kit and the exhibition’s screen-forest for a deep dunk in an immersive and surreal audiovisual stew, and stick around after the show for individual card readings from the Real Deck, guided by the band.
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