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About Gwyneth

Baltimore City - Station North A&E District
Gwyneth Anderson is an animator and sculptor exploring invisibility, perception, and the phenomena of movement.
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Aeriameter

2014
Kodak Ektagraphic AudioViewer Projector, P300 Pico Projector, electronics, hand drawn animation, identification guidebook

Aeriameter is an instrument specially designed for examining the visual and aural composition of airborne phenomena. Visitors can press the forward button, adjust tone and volume, and identify each slide in the accompanying guide.

Aeriameter was created during a residency at the Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), with invaluable help from Alex Inglizian. It was also partially supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

  • Aeriameter
    "Aeriameter" is an instrument specially designed for examining the visual and aural composition of airborne phenomena. Visitors can press the forward button, adjust tone and volume, and identify each slide in the accompanying guide.
  • Aeriameter
    Aeriameter
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    • Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)

    2016
    Paper, ink, gouache, pumpkin seeds

    Memory (Pumpkin Seeds) is a series of approximately 40 copies of copies of a red bag of pumpkin seeds from the US, manufactured by a company titled “Indian”, with their logo printed of an unidentified Native American in a headdress. This work was created to give form to the phenomenon of how memory works. When we recall an event, we aren’t accessing information about the original event - we’re recalling the last time we remembered it.* So, depending on how often you remember, the memory is a copy of a copy of a copy, losing accuracy along the way. In making the piece, I copied the front and back of the original package, and then copied the copy, and then copied that copy, all the time hiding the original and subsequent versions from my line of vision. The majority of the copying was done with my left hand rather than my dominant right. The subject matter, a healthy snack branded by a company’s perception of an indigenous person, evokes the loss of information, as well as loss of empathy. On the whole, Americans encounter more representations of native peoples through advertising and sports, rather than actual people or news accounts. There is much decay and inaccuracy there, distance from truth, much like the tricks memory plays.

    * http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2012/09/your-memory-is-like-the-telephone-game.html
    • Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
      Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
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      Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
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      Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
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      Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
    • Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
      Memory (Pumpkin Seeds)
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    • Phoneme

    2016
    Cellphone, paper, wheat paste, leaf
    Phoneme fills the space between isolated thoughts about the identification of objects. There's illusory separation between a cellphone and a leaf.
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      Phoneme
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      Phoneme
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      Phoneme
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    • Sykliä: Q+A for Tremulous Plants

    2011
    Video for Installation


    A series of six short, looped videos and animations, "Sykliä" (Finnish for “cycles”) is a collection of videos to be screened for certain elements in a landscape. Rather than background, landscape becomes foreground, foremost audience.

    "Q+A for Tremulous Plants" is the fifth video in the "Sykliä" series. This video is for plants barraged with nature’s queries. It can be overwhelming to decide on your opinion of something, even as benign as whether you like the wind. So, let’s just take joy in the motions of response. No need to feel tethered to your answer. To be played for windblown vegetation.
    • Q+A for Tremulous Plants
      "Q+A for Tremulous Plants" is a video for plants barraged with nature’s queries. It can be overwhelming to decide on your opinion of something, even as benign as whether you like the wind. So, let’s just take joy in the motions of response. No need to feel tethered to your answer. To be played for windblown vegetation.
    • Q+A for Tremulous Plants
      Q+A for Tremulous Plants
      Installation view.
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