Luke Murphy Studio & Art
Filaments
Draws virtual very low watt lighting filaments or heating coils accompanied by a 55-65Hz hum.
Draws virtual very low watt lighting filaments or heating coils accompanied by a 55-65Hz hum.
Certainty Shelter
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The time between ticks of the Geiger counter is the wholly unknown that makes up the fabric of the universe. It is the emptiness and unknowability of the machine. The computer translates that sublime unpredictability into a new sublime of information by taking the truly random intervals and making them true random numbers. Confronting the fact that no tick interval can be predicted is like accepting the reality of a vacuum: it exposed the limits of language and imagination.
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The time between ticks of the Geiger counter is the wholly unknown that makes up the fabric of the universe. It is the emptiness and unknowability of the machine. The computer translates that sublime unpredictability into a new sublime of information by taking the truly random intervals and making them true random numbers. Confronting the fact that no tick interval can be predicted is like accepting the reality of a vacuum: it exposed the limits of language and imagination.
Reflections on Past and Future Anxieties
A revisiting of Gauguin's painting "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" and T.S.Eliot's The Four Quartets in the form of PowerPoint in terms of the mathematical relation of anxiety to anxiety..
A revisiting of Gauguin's painting "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?" and T.S.Eliot's The Four Quartets in the form of PowerPoint in terms of the mathematical relation of anxiety to anxiety..
Longest Painting of Death
"The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse c.1896)" by Albert Pinkham Ryder, 27 3/4" x 35 1/8" stretched across 1 mile of pixels and traversed in 2 minutes, 11.2 seconds, the average speed of Secretariat.
"The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse c.1896)" by Albert Pinkham Ryder, 27 3/4" x 35 1/8" stretched across 1 mile of pixels and traversed in 2 minutes, 11.2 seconds, the average speed of Secretariat.
Demon Chaser
This piece begins with forty-nine androgynous cherubim mentioned in the Gnostic Gospels but the organizing principle of this piece is radiation, the ultimate and most natural source of randomness. The piece is driven by radioactive decay measured with a Geiger counter. The Geiger counter responds when a highly charged particle (alpha or beta particle) causes a voltage change in the sensor. This results in a “tick”. The piece has been written so that when a tick is registered it triggers one cherub to transcend their current state and become an activated cherub. The transformation is noted by color, shape change and the reaction of the other cherubim, which orient themselves toward the elevated cherubim, accepting it as their orbital center until the next radioactive ping. The scale of the other cherubim is proportional to their proximity to the elevated cherubim. Activated cherubim revert to their original colors if they are activated again. The cycle, driven by an endless source of randomness (radiation) is repeated endlessly.
This piece begins with forty-nine androgynous cherubim mentioned in the Gnostic Gospels but the organizing principle of this piece is radiation, the ultimate and most natural source of randomness. The piece is driven by radioactive decay measured with a Geiger counter. The Geiger counter responds when a highly charged particle (alpha or beta particle) causes a voltage change in the sensor. This results in a “tick”. The piece has been written so that when a tick is registered it triggers one cherub to transcend their current state and become an activated cherub. The transformation is noted by color, shape change and the reaction of the other cherubim, which orient themselves toward the elevated cherubim, accepting it as their orbital center until the next radioactive ping. The scale of the other cherubim is proportional to their proximity to the elevated cherubim. Activated cherubim revert to their original colors if they are activated again. The cycle, driven by an endless source of randomness (radiation) is repeated endlessly.
PornoPainter
(2003, digital work, projected/screened, running time 2min, Infinite)
This piece animates the words taken from the “meta” tags of various pornography sites. Meta tags are the lists of words placed inside web pages that define the content of that site for categorization when search engines spider or examine the site as it is placed in the search database. When strung together as I have done here they make for a furious Tourette’s like burst of sex words. Each one dances according to a script I have written and is randomly assigned a bright color – in deference to the common design language of the sites from which the words come. The cursive font used to display the words is Duchamp’s handwriting as seems only fitting for a piece that is more about the problems of fulfilled sexual union and the repetition of thought about sex.
(2003, digital work, projected/screened, running time 2min, Infinite)
This piece animates the words taken from the “meta” tags of various pornography sites. Meta tags are the lists of words placed inside web pages that define the content of that site for categorization when search engines spider or examine the site as it is placed in the search database. When strung together as I have done here they make for a furious Tourette’s like burst of sex words. Each one dances according to a script I have written and is randomly assigned a bright color – in deference to the common design language of the sites from which the words come. The cursive font used to display the words is Duchamp’s handwriting as seems only fitting for a piece that is more about the problems of fulfilled sexual union and the repetition of thought about sex.