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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.

Sam Sheffield and I made this gallery hut a few weeks ago. It was situated in a wide and well-traveled hallway. The exterior is thick construction paper attached to a PVC frame via green twine. We had developed various objects to place inside the hut and planed to rotate them during the [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6HMufCzmZM

here is the last installment of my current show at Fringe in LA. this piece is called drive time, here is the wall mounting:

description: a small, visitor controllable time machine. pigmented (white gouache) drops of water are illuminated by a variable, user controllable strobe. by adjusting the [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D17F35-Rqk

in nyc at roulette…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIrDB-8R9vE

in LA at fringe
here is another work currently being shown at Fringe in LA (i’ve been referring to the piece as ‘so/emf‘, too). the top video was shot in nyc at roulette in march, the second video is from Fringe. visitors to Fringe were encouraged to lift [...]

Susan Joyce, whose gallery, Fringe Exhibitions, is showing my balloon chamber, which i wrote about in the previous post, told me that the neighborhood kids, who treated the work like a ball pit at a family restaurant during the opening (look at the video #2 from the previous post for an example), have [...]

Some video and notes from a current show at Fringe Exhibitions in LA entitled: ‘…that floaty feeling…’ (press release in previous post). The show features three recent works. This post will cover one of the pieces entitled: balloon chamber. (three videos below).
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A 14×14×14 netted (fish netting) chamber of Mylar and latex [...]