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Phylum

JUNE 6-JULY 18, 2008

Opening Reception & Artist Talk with Lane Hall: 

Friday, June 6, 4:30 pm

I.D.E.A. SPACE, EDITH KINNEY GAYLORD CORNERSTONE ARTS CENTER

Art and science collide in Phylum, a video installation created by Lane Hall and Lisa Moline that explores issues of scale, representation and the mapping of knowledge. Composed of connected fragments, the installation inverts relationships between microcosm and macrocosm. Scientific and quasi-scientific visualization bump against poetic video bits and pieces: swimming aquatic fauna, microscopic photographs of creatures as they feed, bacterial models rapidly reproducing, hands turning Petri dishes, bones thrown on a projector platen. These fragments are interspersed with captions which hint at meaning through humor, direction and misdirection. At its core, Phylum presents a study in how we seek narrative sense through scientific visualization, and how the results are often ambiguous, tenuous and poetic. The installation includes audio from Colorado College’s Bowed Piano Ensemble.

A graduate of Colorado College, Hall teaches print, visual culture and experimental literature in the English department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Moline teaches graphic design and multimedia in the department of visual art at the same university. Their collaborative research interests involve representations of nature through the lens of technology – an associative reinterpretation of natural sciences – and focuses on the non-sentimental depiction of nature, exploring the boundaries between the natural and the technological. 

Phylum is made possible through the generous support of the Robert & Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust.