Larry Shea
Work Samples
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information about each project
Wonderland
Traveling Gallery Exhibition 1998 - 2000
Artist: Julia Scher
Opened: Andrea Rosen Gallery NY 1998
Larry Shea: Video / Interaction Design
A Max/MSP controlled interactive
installation loosely based on Lewis Caroll’s “Alice
in Wonderland.” The program choreographs a dialogue
between voices. The Alice character interrogates the
Queen’s seductive narration about our “superior new
society.” Immersive lighting and sound effects help
viewers to feel the stakes in this power play.
Predictive Engineering 2
Museum Exhibition 1999
Artist: Julia Scher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1999
Larry Shea: Video / Interaction Design
A Max/MSP controlled installation that
captured and mixed current gallery goers’ images with
those recorded in a 1993 version of the installation as well as
pre-recorded imagery of often naked bodies struggling within
the architecture of the museum. A voice activated microphone
allowed viewers to add their comments to Scher’s
seductive authoritarian monologue.
Picture Projects
Aerial Dance Performances
Artists: Johanna Haigood / Mary Ellen
Strom & others
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2000
Red Hook, Brooklyn 2002
Larry Shea: Video / Technical Design /
Live Video Operator
Large scale video projection installation
on grain silos for Zaccho Dance Theater’s aerial dance.
Pre-recorded & live video were composed and manipulated in
realtime as the performance unfolded. Sponsored by the Walker
Art Center, Dancing in the Streets, NY and others.
Geyser Land
Performance/video projection event on
tourist train
Montana 2002 - 2003
Artists: Mary Ellen Strom & Ann
Carlson
Larry Shea: Video / Technical Design
Geyserland was an hour-long immersive
experience where the audience boarded a tourist train between
Livingston and Bozeman, Montana, and observed video projected
onto the passing landscape from projectors on the train as well
as hidden scaffolding. Ann Carlson provided an audio commentary
to Dan Dobson’s evocative soundtrack while performers on
the train engaged the audience. Funded by Arts Partners, the
Rockefeller Foundation, and others.
Water Water Everywhere
WIP - Mix Festival October 2009
Artist: Larry Shea
Video and sound installation projected on
the cobblestones of Water Street in the South Street Seaport,
using the history of water use in New York City as a window
onto the enduring American practice of opportunistic
exploitation. Personal field recordings and early experimental
electronic music combined with this looping imagery evokes
various historical stages, from pristine wilderness to polluted
cesspools, from the logic of networked water mains to the
metaphoric tides of contemporary global capital.
SMFA Student Work
Pressure:
Interactive Installation Student
Exhibition
Boston Cyberarts Festival - 2001
Larry Shea: Instructor / Curator
"Pressure" was a collaborative
effort of the students in "Interactive Installation"
a class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts taught by
Larry Shea. Technically this class focuses on the MAX/MSP
object oriented Multimedia programming language coupled with
the I-Cube, a MIDI interface system for connecting external
sensors (pressure sensors, lasers, etc.) to MAX/MSP.
Situated in the Gallery@Green St,
"Pressure" is a site specific installation where
computer controlled sensors manipulate the sights and sounds of
daily commuting to address issues of accelerated culture and
the evolving metaphors for speed and progress. Pressure seeks
to explore the psychology and physicality of individuals in the
contemporary urban landscape.
