The Asynchronous Coma:
Living Screens, Rooms, and Bodies
Gary Pennock
InstallationJanuary 31 - March 16, 2013
Gary Pennock experiments with the intrinsic properties of phenomena and materials to form an aesthetic experience. He attempts to capture the imagination with poetic presentations of Meta themes such as time, nature and mortality that often function at the threshold of perceptual awareness. Attuning time-based compositions to our visual and aural apparatus allows him to transform our engagement with screen-based technologies into potentially therapeutic sensorial events.
The Asynchronous Coma is arranged in a darkened space offering intimate encounters with seven works that encompass the body in a ritualistic experience of time. Technology and the natural world form a symbiotic relationship mediated by the human body.
Pennock’s sensory environments, whether the projected light dancing on flowing fabric in Horizon in the Fold, the auditory and visual A Line Through the Center of Space or the sifting sands of Erode, each givevoice to materials and phenomena that evoke meaningful connections with our senses. The artist focuses on the audience synthesizing minimal elements into their own universe, striving for a balance between subjective and objective. He aims to operate at the boundaries of reality and illusion, thought and emotion.
About the Artist
Gary Pennock (born 1978) graduated from the University of Washington’s Digital Arts & Experimental Media program with a BFA in 2008. In 2010, he earned an MFA in Art & Technology Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited video and works of light from coast to coast in a variety of formats. Pennock currently lives in New York.
Image courtesy the artist.