one voices

recorded in a park at sunset, under high magnification, natural light filtered through undulating leaves, refracting as it moves across a surface of reflective, crystalline nanostructures.

lili and i made this device that refracts and projects light for an upcoming project.
bright, white light over a moving array of tiny, and not so tiny reflective surfaces. inspired by a recent weekend spent wandering around manhattan looking at the complex picture planes on windows fronting empty/transitional spaces.
additional info on [...]

new work from lili maya and me at flux factory for the science fair earlier this month.
for images and description go here

lili maya & james rouvelle’s flux-maps-flux from maya rouvelle on Vimeo.

synchronous displacement is an iterative process of translation from light to sound to vibration.

lili maya & james rouvelle’s synchronous displacement (excerpt) from maya rouvelle on Vimeo.
in this floor mounted artwork, shifting patterns of light in an array of LEDs below a diffusing medium are tracked by software. the patterns are translated into a sound composition [...]

recent work with lili at flux factory last month.
details, and some stills, here

lili maya & james rouvelle’s 1.1 from maya rouvelle on Vimeo.

last week in class we looked at the cognitive psychology effect called priming
here’s a definition:
Priming refers to a increased sensitivity to certain stimuli due to prior experience. Because priming it believed to occur outside of conscious awareness, it is different from memory that relies on the direct retrieval of information. Direct retrieval utilizes explicit memory, [...]

Last week Guna Nadarajan, Vice-provost for research at MICA, gave an interesting talk to the faculty and mentioned that research, especially in the US, is not something most artists and designers feel comfortable with, or even able, or qualified to do.
I found this lecture (below) by Jared Diamond on, among other things, applying science to [...]