The College of Arts + Architecture’s Projective Eye Gallery, located at UNC Charlotte Center City, will present “Aggregation Transformation,” an interactive installation created by four faculty members, Ryan Buyssens, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, Heather Freeman and Erik Waterkotte.
The exhibit will open with a reception on Friday, July 12, and will run through Friday, Sept. 13. A second reception will be on Friday, Aug. 30.
Designed and built specifically for the Projective Eye Gallery, “Aggregation Transformation” fills the space with a massive, multi-faceted structure fabricated of steel wire and bands and covered with a “skin” of mesh strips. Ten feet high and 20 feet long, the structure becomes a vertical terrain; its ridges and angles and craters and protrusions aggregate interplays of form, light, image and motion through animations, sculpture, robotics and print. Projections play across the surface and also glow from within. Triggered by motion sensors, elements of this multi-media terrain will change in response to viewers’ movement through the gallery space.
“Aggregation Transformation” is the Projective Eye Gallery's second Summer Experiment, an annual exhibition dedicated to collaboration and experimentation by College of Arts + Architecture faculty.
Projects are chosen each year by an external panel; this year’s members were Brad Thomas, curator of contemporary art at the Mint Museum and recently named director of residencies and exhibitions at McColl Center for Visual Art; Peter Nisbet, chief curator of the Ackland Art Museum, UNC Chapel Hill; and Irina Toshkova of the New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte.
The July 12 and Aug. 30 receptions will be from 6 to 8 p.m. and will feature live music and dance performance by the Triptych Collective.