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Losing Winter

Losing Winter, site-specific multimedia participatory art project, AR app, still images from AR mobile app, 2022.

Uncultivated

Uncultivated, site specific installation of posters for bus shelters, Bronx, NY.

Diluvian

Diluvian 14, unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 25" x 21". From series featuring shadowy images of discarded electronics, which persist in the environment long after their obsolescence, juxtaposed with organic materials, highlighting their vastly different rates of decay.

Portrait Garden

Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison.

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About Lynn

Baltimore City

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Lynn Cazabon's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions with Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Artists Space (New York, NY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (... more

Losing Winter

Site-specific multimedia participatory art project, AR mobile app

Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through site-specific exhibitions, collaborations with the public, and an augmented reality mobile application. Losing Winter was first realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania in 2018. In addition to the recorded memories, the project in Bucharest included Melt, a video featuring a series of unique ice sculptures created in response to memories contributed by participants positioned in key locations in and around the museum. Losing Winter has since been realized in several other iterations, including at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD, 2021 - 23) and at the Oresman Gallery at Smith College (Northampton, MA, 2022). The Losing Winter mobile app is the project archive and invites users to experience the memories of others through an augmented reality display. Holding up a mobile device, users see a shower of rain drops overlaid onto the scene in which they are standing. Tapping on the screen freezes drops of virtual water and tapping a second time enlarges a single drop, revealing a person frozen inside who begins to speak, telling you about their memory. As they complete their story, they disappear and the ice drop melts, turning back into water and falling out the bottom of the frame.

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    Stills from augmented reality mobile app.
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    An example of memories as viewed through the Losing Winter AR mobile app at The Peale Museum in Baltimore, MD.
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    Still images from 24 videos, for project as realized for the Oresman Gallery at Smith College. This iteration of the project resulted in a mediated intergenerational dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
  • Losing Winter

    Four memories from realization of Losing Winter for Oresman Gallery at Smith College, 2022. This iteration of the project resulted in a mediated intergenerational dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
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    Documentation of Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Memories collected from Marylanders of different ages are presented within a historical exhibition of photographs and films showing Maryland in winter over a 100 year period.
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    Still images from Losing Winter AR mobile app, as viewed in Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture, 2021.
  • Losing Winter

    An example of one memory as viewed through the Losing Winter AR mobile app in the Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture.
  • MELT

    Still from Melt, 4K video
  • MELT

    4K video that is part of the project as realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2018). The video features ice sculptures created to represent selected memories placed in key locations inside and outside the museum in the process of melting.

Uncultivated

Site-specific artwork, geo-referenced photographs, public displays, website, workshops

http://uncultivated.info
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Each photograph has a corresponding webpage containing detailed information on all the plants appearing in them, the location, and the date it was taken. Public displays show images taken in the vicinity of the display venue and workshops are hosted in collaboration with the local communities in which the project is realized. 

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    Documentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
  • Uncultivated

    Documentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
  • Uncultivated

    Detail of site specific installation, 1 of 12 photographs, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
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    Uncultivated
    Photograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
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    Uncultivated
    Photograph and text, displayed as poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
  • Uncultivated

    Photograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant.
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    Documentation of Urban Wild Plant Cameraless Photography Workshop, International Center of Photography at The Point, Bronx, NY, May 2018.
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    Uncultivated
    photographic mural produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 11 feet x 10 feet, 2016
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    Uncultivated
    Site-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet, 2016
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    Uncultivated
    Detail, site-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet, 2016

Ecomimesis

Virtual reality environment

Ecomimesis is a VR environment containing animated virtual plants that offers viewers an intimate encounter with growing plants in an accelerated life-cycle. The species featured is Conyza canadensis, a common urban ‘weed’ chosen for its prevalence in human crafted landscapes that is at same time often 'invisible' to most people as they choose to ignore such so-called nuisance species. Ecomimesis was inspired by Charles Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants in which Darwin documents his observations of how plants move as they grow.  

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    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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    Video of animation from view of VR headset, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis

    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis

    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis

    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
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    Ecomimesis
    still image from VR animation in generic gallery space
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    Ecomimesis
    Still image from VR animation in generic gallery space
  • Ecomimesis

    Ecomimesis
    Still image from VR animation in generic gallery space

Diluvian

Unique gelatin silver solar photograms

The images in the Diluvian series were created using expired black and white photographic paper and lengthy solar exposures. These unique cameraless, contact prints feature shadowy images of discarded electronics, which persist in the environment long after their obsolescence, juxtaposed with organic materials, highlighting their vastly different rates of decay. 

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    Diluvian
    40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, @ 8" x 10", total dimensions 53" x 87"
  • Diluvian

    Diluvian
    40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, detail of one print 8"x10"
  • Diluvian 11

    Diluvian 11
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24.5" x 21"
  • Diluvian 12

    Diluvian 12
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 14

    nique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 25" x 21"
  • Diluvian 15

    Diluvian 15
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 16

    Diluvian 16
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 26

    Diluvian 26
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 20" x 19.5"
  • Diluvian 2

    Diluvian
    unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"
  • Diluvian 9

    Diluvian
    unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"

Baltic Portraits

Photographs and text

Baltic Portraits is a trilingual project situated at the intersection between the genres of portraiture and landscape. The project consists of a series of fifty portraits of residents of Liepaja, Latvia, standing at the edge of the Baltic Sea displayed with a quote about the role the sea plays in their lives, along with eight long-exposure photographs of the sea taken just after sunset. Latvia is one of the three Baltic countries, with a complex history of occupation by Nazi Germany and the USSR for a majority of the 20th century. The Baltic Sea forms Latvia's border on its western side while Russia borders its eastern side. With tensions with Russia currently erupting across the region, the Baltic Sea is a visible reminder of the vulnerability of this small country.

Portrait Garden

Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration

Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection and resulted in the creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographic prints of the cultivated plants paired with text and audio statements from each woman.

Junkspace

Time and location sensitive animation, custom software

Junkspace is a time and location sensitive animation that dynamically visualizes space debris tracking data, using images of earth-bound electronic waste as stand-ins for debris in orbit above the viewer. Using custom software, orbital debris tracking data, and the user’s location, the movement of animated e-waste on screen aligns with the path of pieces of debris in orbit above the user’s location. The project draws attention to a central problem of technological innovation: objects that persist in the environment long after their functional and stylistic obsolescence. The project originally also existed as an iOS app. 

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    Junkspace
    production still from animation
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    sample of animation
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    Junkspace
    Installation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
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    Junkspace
    Installation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
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    Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  • Junkspace

    Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  • Junkspace

    Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
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    Junkspace
    Installation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA
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    Junkspace
    Installation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA; detail of custom prints on fabric installed in windows

Discard

Pigment ink jet prints and Fuji Crystal Archive prints

Discard is a body of work consisting of several discrete series of photographic prints featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). Harking back to the 19th century practice of postmortem photography, each print serves as a memento mori to an obsolete film. More generally, the series reflects on the often arbitrary process that determines whether cultural artifacts are preserved or discarded. 

Story of M

Installation of 140 Lightjet prints, video, viewer-activated, ink jet prints
Story of M presents the viewer with fragmented details (images, sounds, films) of an anonymous man’s life across several decades of time. These various elements set the stage for multiple narratives to be constructed – the shape of any one story reflecting back to the viewer their own subjective “M”. The viewer's movement in the second room of the installation randomly triggers one of 200 audio clips to play, incorporating them into the shaping of the work.

Plaids

Chromogenic photographs and photograms

Plaids combines super-eight movie film and a labor-intensive, hand-made process. Each print in the series was made from dozens of individually developed and toned strips of super-eight movie film woven together, each containing a mini-narrative embedded within the film frames. These sequences feature short performances by the artist as well as frames from found footage. These images are 'photographs' of film which at first glance are abstract, referencing pixels, paintings, and textiles.

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