We had a blast (as always) as 1708 Gallery‘s InLight festival and we’ve got the video to prove it.
We had a blast (as always) as 1708 Gallery‘s InLight festival and we’ve got the video to prove it.
Featuring work submitted by artists from around the city, 1708 closed off most of Scott’s Addition to allow locals to roam the streets and play under the light of the moon as well as numerous impress light sculptures, displays and projections.
Check out some video of the event shot by our editor BK:
There were some winners from the night, besides those who braved the chilly weather to see the show. Check out the pieces that stood out below with text via 1708:
BEST IN SHOW
Selected by Juror Ellina Kevorkian, Artistic Director of Residency Programs at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Andy Diaz Hope & Jon Bernson | God(s)dess(es) (Top image)
Andy Diaz Hope and Jon Bernson combine elements of sculpture, audio and video to create immersive, multi-sensory environments. Both an object and an experience, God(s)dess(es) (2015) features a montage of film depictions of gods and goddesses from the past thirty years.
Andy Diaz Hope earned his BA and MA in Engineering from Stanford University’s joint program between the engineering and art departments. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY; the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia; and the London Crafts Council, London, England.
Jon Benson was a 2015 artist-in-residence at the de Young Museum and is a resident playwright at the Playwrights Foundation in San Francisco. Recent projects include Beautification Machine, his collaboration with Andy Diaz Hope, which is now part of the permanent collection at the Nevada Museum of Art.
NEW MARKET PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Selected by the InLight audience
Bob Kaputof | Cold and Overcast Day
Cold and Overcast Day (2016) features a narrative of images and sounds created with light, lenses and objects; flashes of electricity create shadows of ideas, memories and desires and collectively suggest a dreamscape. The soundtrack is produced by placing a speaker downstream of the bulbs to capture the sounds generated by these flashing lights. The effect is random. The images can be singular. But often times images occur in combinations akin to the firing of neurons in the brain.
Bob Kaputof is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University currently teaching in the Kinetic Imaging Department. He has taught in both the Design and Kinetic Imaging departments at VCU and led the K.I. Department from 2003-2010. He has screened work at the Dallas Video Festival; the Pacific Film Archives; Berkeley and Mill Valley Film & Video Festival and other venues
