Borderline PD #1

source: paulmyoda

Paul Myoda is a sculptor based in the woods of Chepachet, Rhode Island. Myoda is inspired by the underlying logic and mathematical principles of the natural world and applies them to his work with new media, technology and industrial materials. The result is compositions of light, motion, and form that find a balance and a beauty between the organic and the built. Regularly exhibited both nationally and internationally, his sculptures and installations are known for their elegance and their expression of organic forces through artificial materials and systems.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University, Myoda is recognized as an artist, designer, critic and educator. Based in NYC from 1990-2006, Myoda was represented by the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, and was co-founder of Big Room, an art production and design collective in New York City. He was also a contributor to Art in America, Flash Art and Frieze. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Warhol Foundation and Howard Foundation, among others. In 2001 he participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Views Program and had a studio on the 91st floor of WTC I. In March of 2002 he co-created the Tribute in Light in memory of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, which has since become an annual installation. He was an adjunct professor at The City College of New York and has been an assistant professor in Brown University’s Visual Art Department since 2006.

Myoda’s most recent work, Glittering Machines, is a series of interactive illuminating sculptures that respond to the presence of viewers. Their design is informed by bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology and computational geometry. An example of hybrid arts practice and cybernetic sculpture, the series bridges the disconnections and eases the anxieties of the post-industrial world through affect, presence and responsive gesture. His works are part of the collections of the Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Library of Congress. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the Dorsch Gallery in Miami and the Project 4 Gallery in Washington DC.
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source: mocoloco

Made of machined aluminum and laser cut thermoplastic, and circuits with high-powered LEDs, motors and Arduino microprocessors that are programmed to imitate various biological systems (i.e. communicational, behavioral and environmental), Paul Myoda’s Glittering Machines are sculptures that explore our relationship with the digital world. The sculptures are triggered by the viewers’ proximity to change their shapes and luminescence to show how computers deviate from their usual functions to interact with the physicality of the human body. Shown above is Borderline Personality Disorder 2.
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source: h0410232blogspot

Paul Myoda給人最深印象的, 該是2002年在911遺址中的Light Artwork—兩道強光代表消失了的世貿雙子塔. 除了如此Epic的作品外, 他也喜歡造些小型的發光擺設. 這次他設計一系列的作品以未來為主調, 大功率的LED燈令其有鎢絲燈的舊光感, 但周邊由塑膠及鋁做出來的設計很不規則, 充滿波動感, 走的是Futurism, 而在燈光反射下出來的影像, 是一像對未來和懷古的調和.