Dark Skies
Two-channel projection on dimensional (digitally sculpted) wall, 8’ x 8’.
Dark Skies is a multi-media, multi sensory collaboration with the architectural firm: Axi:Ome and sound designer, Christopher Ottinger. This work is motivated by the existence of light pollution, defined by The International Dark-Sky Association(IDA) as an excessive amount of obtrusive artificial light. The work takes as its title an astronomical reference, referring to remote places free of hazy city light that allow for an extended view into deep space and time as a unique perceptual and psychological experience.
Dark Skies is a multi-channel video projection on a large-scale dimensional wall:one side reveals a crepuscular sky and the other, a dark sky with smoky trails. The installation also includes a soundscape, drawn primarily from field recordings captured at twilight in the Rocky Mountains during high summer. The sound design in “Dark Skies” serves two functions: The first is to sonically articulate the ambiguous space between micro and macro environments, echoing those depicted in video elements, and the second is to add an interactive/immersive quality to the work. The sound elements are projected directionally into the exhibition space and viewers will be able to migrate between these two soundtracks—essentially moving between macro and micro realms.