About Joe

Baltimore City
Joe Reinsel uses video, and sound to explore ideas about architectural space, time, and touch. His creative work continues to considers interaction and the environment and each work investigates different facets of communication such as video work for public installation, collective storytelling, and interactive exhibitions. He is the recipient of grants from The Flint Public Art Project, International Society of Electronic Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore Museum of Art, New York… more

Il Tartufo Lucente

Created while Artist in Residence for Light City 2016,  Il Tartufo Lucente is inspired by the stories, people, and places  in Little Italy in Baltimore, MD. It  illuminated the façade of St. Leo the Great Church at the intersection of Exeter and Stiles streets. Utilizing modern projection mapping software, this work incorporated photos, drawings, and imagery collected through community workshops that lead up to the festival.
  • Il Tartfuo Lucente
    Il Tartfuo Lucente
    Il Tartufo Lucente- Joe Reinsel - Light City 2016, Baltimore, MD
  • Light City Baltimore Neighborhood Lights: Little Italy
    This is documentation of the Light City 2016 project that I created as Artist in Residence for Little Italy. (video documentation credit- Baltimore Office Office of the Promotion and the Arts)
  • Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016
    Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016
  • Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016
    Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016
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  • Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016
    Il Tartufo Lucente- Light City 2016

SNOW

This site-specific video installation “SNOW” was created using interactive software processing and rendering this seasonal passively observed installation. “SNOW” has been shown as part of public art events in Detroit, MI( November 2013), Williamsport, PA(December 2013),and Richmond VA( Nov 2014)
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  • SNOW- Image Sequence
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    SNOW3.jpg
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  • SNOW
    SNOW
    SNOW- Detroit, MI
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  • "SNOW"
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    SNOWRichmond.jpg

Resonations Series

These works are created from sound. The analog synthesizer that I used to generate the sine waves allowed me to connect a low voltage signal (+ or – 5 volts) to a video signal generator. The result was similar to the prints, except that it was black and white. I then used another analog video device that was connected to the output of the video signal generator to shift the color values. The material was recorded as video in a studio performance. To construct the prints, I digitized the video and selected individual video frames. I then processed and printed (26 X 40 inch) the video frames on archival paper.  They were created while in residence at Experimental Television Center, in NY state.
  • Resonation 1
    Resonation 1
  • Resonation 2
    Resonation 2
  • Resonation 3
    Resonation 3
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    Resonation 4
  • Resonation 5
    Resonation 5
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    Resonation 6
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    Resonation 7
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    Resonation 8
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    Resonation 9
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    Resonation 10

Threshold Circuit

Balancing visual and sound elements between distortion and clarity, I created Threshold Circuit. Viruses (biological and electrically) manipulate information and our bodies everyday and I want to visually describe that â??teeteringâ? moment between clarity and confusion.
  • Threshold Circuit
  • Threshold Circuit #2

Deck

“Deck” was created to explore a “non-electronic” experiment of creating an animation using thin simple lines. In “Deck” I used a portable video camera and “danced” across a backyard deck keeping the camera lense focused on the deck’s floor.
The music for this piece has similar purpose to “Lim.1”, to immerse the audience into the fast movements by using the constrasting, slow moving sounds.
 
  • Deck
    "Deck" was created to explore a "non-electronic" experiment of creating an animation using thin simple lines. In "Deck" I used a portable video camera and "danced" across a backyard deck keeping the camera lense focused on the deck's floor. The music for this piece has similar purpose to "Lim.1", to immerse the audience into the fast movements by using the constrasting, slow moving sounds.

Lim.1

“Deck” was created to explore a “non-electronic” experiment of creating an animation using thin simple lines. In “Deck” I used a portable video camera and “danced” across a backyard deck keeping the camera lens focused on the deck’s floor.

The music I wrote for this piece has similar purpose to “Lim.1”, to immerse the audience into the fast movements by using the contrasting, slow moving sounds.
 
  • Lim.1

Re:Dok

This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transition.
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    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:dok
    Re:dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:dok
    Re:dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:Dok
    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:Dok
    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:Dok
    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:Dok
    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.
  • Re:Dok
    Re:Dok
    This collection of works incorporates my personal photographs into cut up collages in site-specific locations in public space and as a personal exploration of place and transistion.

Sliding Architecture

Created for ArtPrize  and Site:Lab in Grand Rapids, MI  and supported by the Flint Public Art Project. Here is more information about the work.
“Joe Reinsel’s installation in collaboration with Amplifier/ Flint Public Art Project’s  for the 2014 ArtPrize incorporates indoor and outdoor projection mapping components to involve the public in light’s capacity to instantly transform space both at night on the building’s surface and indoors during the day. Using video cameras and projectors, Reinsel’s work, Sliding Architecture, places participants into interactive engagement with the built environment and shifts the building from a static material to a transient and movable object.”
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    Sliding Architecture
  • Sliding Architecture
    Sliding Architecture
    Sliding Architecture
  • Sliding Architecture -Basement-Morton 2014
  • Sliding Architecture -Outdoor Projection -Morton GR

The Pavement

I have created a work that brings Jane Jacobs’ words directly to the sidewalk. Hearing these excerpts while walking in Washington DC added a new vantage point to understand her text. This audio walk invited people to walk and listen. I placed 5 audio recordings around the vicinity of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Each are marked with a distinct branding that people found out on the street using a smartphone and a QR decoder application. Narration by WYPR-Baltimore radio producer, Aaron Henkin.
For more information, please visit, http://www.joereinsel.org/the_pavement
 
 
  • The Pavement
    The Pavement
    The Pavement- Corcoran Gallery of Art
  • The Pavement-Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    The Pavement-Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
  • The Pavement-Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    The Pavement-Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC