http://www.scottkiernan.com Scott Kiernan Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:47:25 +0000 http://www.scottkiernan.com en http://www.scottkiernan.com/Selected-Works http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/Selected-Works Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:47:25 +0000 Scott Kiernan 4360542 <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/monday20night20madness.jpg" width="572" height="758" width_o="572" height_o="758" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/monday20night20madness_o.jpg" data-mid="25959037" border="0" align="left"/> Monday Night Madness Madness, 2010 photograph 30 x 40" <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/SKiernan_Mirage_2009.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/SKiernan_Mirage_2009_o.jpg" data-mid="23062534" border="0" align="left"/> Mirage 1, 2009 Archival inkjet on acetate, silver mylar, painted frame 26 x 38" <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/another presence.jpg" width="670" height="840" width_o="1192" height_o="1495" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/another presence_o.jpg" data-mid="23065357" border="0" align="left"/> Another Presence, 2010 Photograph, 24 x 36" <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/take my breathaway ltr.jpg" width="670" height="462" width_o="2048" height_o="1413" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/take my breathaway ltr_o.jpg" data-mid="23066062" border="0" align="left"/> Take My Breath, 2010 Archival inkjet on acetate, silver mylar, painted frame 26 x 38" <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/saw icetable.jpg" width="670" height="506" width_o="878" height_o="664" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/4360542/saw icetable_o.jpg" data-mid="23128550" border="0" align="left"/> Untitled, 2011 Photocollage, 11 x 17" Monday Night Madness Madness, 2010 photograph 30 x 40" Mirage 1, 2009 Archival inkjet on acetate, silver mylar, painted frame 26 x 38" Another Presence,... http://www.scottkiernan.com/E-S-P-TV-1 http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/E-S-P-TV-1 Mon, 21 May 2012 11:59:39 +0000 Scott Kiernan 3444942 E.S.P. TV is an organization dedicated to promoting the performing and media based arts. E.S.P. TV utilizes a mobile analog television studio to present a nomadic showcase of experimental music, video art and performance. We run a multi faceted organization that acts as a live studio broadcast, a program on public access television, and a theatrical performance. All events are taped live with a crew of cameramen, sound engineer, and video mixing team using analog broadcast media. Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and video mixing. The show is then edited and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television (MNN), to be aired every Tuesday night at 10PM. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing. Our core mission is to preserve public broadcast, as well as showcase the ongoing use and ability of analog media in a digitally run world. Originally formed out of a Brooklyn loft/project space called, Louis V E.S.P in 2011, E.S.P. TV have since opened a new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project (experimental and performative application of broadcast media), and a regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events. We seek to create a hub for developing ideas and dialogue within the creative community. In addition, our space has initiated a pirate and lo-fi broadcast archive, focusing on the ephemera surrounding historical broadcast programs as well as reference material generated by innovators in the field. E.S.P. TV works internationally, working with smaller run venues as well as larger institutions and museums. Our goal is to track down and showcase the pulse of artistic activity, creative innovation, and action in each location we visit. E.S.P. TV has worked with various venues including: Museum of Arts and Design, Printed Matter, Millennium Film Workshop as a part of INDEX Festival, Clemente Soto Velez Center (NYC); Interstate, Present Company, The Schoolhouse, La Sala, 285 Kent, Vaudeville Park, Spectacle Theater, Roulette (Brooklyn, NY), Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT), Liminal Space (Oakland), Queens Nails Projects (San Francisco), General Public (Berlin) and Pallas Projects (Dublin). E.S.P. TV is an organization dedicated to promoting the performing and media based arts. E.S.P. TV utilizes a mobile analog television studio to present a nomadic... http://www.scottkiernan.com/E-S-P-LAB-1 http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/E-S-P-LAB-1 Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:19 +0000 Scott Kiernan 3411067 <img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 55 from -Untitled7.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="720" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 55 from -Untitled7_o.jpg" data-mid="17550539" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 71 from -Untitled7- .jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="720" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 71 from -Untitled7- _o.jpg" data-mid="17550564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 41 from -Untitled7-.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="720" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Marker 41 from -Untitled7-_o.jpg" data-mid="17550521" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/103 EDIT_1.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="720" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/103 EDIT_1_o.jpg" data-mid="17551368" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 1.png" width="670" height="473" width_o="977" height_o="691" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 1_o.png" data-mid="17729326" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 3.png" width="670" height="478" width_o="964" height_o="689" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 3_o.png" data-mid="17729332" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 7.png" width="670" height="499" width_o="945" height_o="704" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/Picture 7_o.png" data-mid="17729337" border="0" align="left"/> ESP LAB is a media based collaborative, formed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan in 2012. The collaboration explores sound and vision through analog methods and electronics. Work is presented in both a performative context as well as exhibited. Their hybrid station for manipulating video signals and soundwaves is comprised of signal generators, TV monitors, video mixers, and modulators. Kiernan and Keddie also co-direct and operate E.S.P. TV, a live taping broadcast on MNN network (http://esptvnyc.com/). Ghost Machine (2013) 23 min w/ sound Performed live in one take to SuperVHS Dot Drone (2012) 10:59 min w sound analog video, signal generators, ring modulator, video mixer, tv monitor Concept: Using basic TV monitor testing patterns and electrical current to create a nervous balance of structure and a literal meltdown of form into a rolling geometry. Mask Valley (2012) 7:58 min w sound analog video, signal generators, ring modulator, video mixer, tv monitor Concept: Masking visuals through overloaded circuit to create a dialogue between controlled planes and erratic reproductive patterns Crystallus: Erotic Impact Phase + ESP (2012) 30 min w live sound Collaboration with 3 channel 16mm film by Kat Bauer Signal generators, video mixer, tube cameras, tv monitors, chroma enhancer Concept: To create an engaging environment using film and video in conversation. Images weave between mirror replication of projected image and with signal distortion. The result was a play of narration, memory, and signal. Exhibitions and Performances: Live From the Control Room, Museum of Art and Design, NY NY, Feb. 26, 2013 ChelseaSound, Printed Matter, NY, NY Oct. 2012 Kinematic Thursdays, July 19 7PM, produced by Opalnest DORON SADJA / TRISTAN SHEPHERD with LEILA BORDREUIL / ESP LAB Entwine, 765 Washington Street, NYC http://opalnest.com/kinematic/ CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO WATCH VIDEO <img src="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/me and vic.jpg" width="550" height="365" width_o="550" height_o="365" src_o="http://payload55.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/3411067/me and vic_o.jpg" data-mid="21252484" border="0" align="left"/> E.S.P. LAB + Future Archaeology July 8, 8PM, Vaudeville Park, 26 Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn NY 11211 http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/esp-lab-future-archeology No Found Route, Aggregate Space, June 2 8PM 801 West Grand Avenue, Oakland CA 94607 http://aggregatespace.com/ Fotofono, curated by Gill Arno, May 27 8PM Brooklyn, NY http://fotofono.net/ Crystallus:Astral Erotic Impact Phase, May 10 7PM 3 channel film projection by, Kat Bauer and live video/ signal manipulation by ESP LAB 80WSE Gallery, 80 Washington SQ East, NYC ESP LAB is a media based collaborative, formed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan in 2012. The collaboration explores sound and vision through analog methods and... http://www.scottkiernan.com/EXITIXE http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/EXITIXE Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:45:19 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923490 The space between an exit and entrance... <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe2.jpg" width="637" height="720" width_o="637" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe2_o.jpg" data-mid="16545014" border="0" align="left"/> EXITIXE 11, 2009 photocollage, 44 x 49" <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe4.jpg" width="646" height="720" width_o="646" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe4_o.jpg" data-mid="16545015" border="0" align="left"/> EXITIXE, 2009 photocollage, 40 x 49" <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe 16.jpg" width="670" height="705" width_o="684" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exitixe 16_o.jpg" data-mid="16545273" border="0" align="left"/> EXITIXE 10, 2009 photocollage, 44x49" <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exit lite 1.jpg" width="466" height="720" width_o="466" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exit lite 1_o.jpg" data-mid="16545054" border="0" align="left"/> Stage Left, 2009 duratrans in lightbox <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exit light2.jpg" width="528" height="720" width_o="528" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923490/exit light2_o.jpg" data-mid="16545057" border="0" align="left"/> Stage Right, 2009 duratrans in lightbox The space between an exit and entrance... EXITIXE 11, 2009 photocollage, 44 x 49" EXITIXE, 2009 photocollage, 40 x 49" EXITIXE 10, 2009 photocollage, 44x49" ... http://www.scottkiernan.com/Devils-Triangles-Reprise http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/Devils-Triangles-Reprise Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:05:35 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923635 multichannel video with audio (26 min loop), steel, custom made harp Devils Triangles (reprise) is a song to conjure the transport of the Bermuda Triangle to the American Midwest. The visual score that drives the piece is created by triangulating the flight paths between domestic US airlines through major hub airports. Granular synthesis of the sound of Aeolian wind harps cording to this score generates the music of "Devil's Triangles". This same shape was made into a plan for building a real electric harp, which I commissioned from an Appalachian harpist/luthier I found via YouTube. Videos of his improvisations on the Devils Triangle harp upon building it find their way into the video mix of Devils Triangles and complete the chain of cross-country correspondence. The construction of the steel framework is inspired by a combination of a Contructivist stage set (a la Exter), game show and sci-fi aesthetic. It is a completely modular system in that it is basically a series of identical fabricated steel sawhorses stacked in a pyramid formation. <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri1.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="640" height_o="426" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri1_o.jpg" data-mid="16544015" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri2.jpg" width="640" height="426" width_o="640" height_o="426" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri2_o.jpg" data-mid="16544016" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri3.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="640" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923635/dtri3_o.jpg" data-mid="16544017" border="0" align="left"/> multichannel video with audio (26 min loop), steel, custom made harp Devils Triangles (reprise) is a song to conjure the transport of the Bermuda Triangle to the... http://www.scottkiernan.com/Extra-Special-Ops http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/Extra-Special-Ops Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:51:58 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923775 In Extra Special Ops, pixelated versions of four chance-derived, blown ink drawings go through cellular automata processes to simulate imagined population growth. These changes are made physical via video projection onto dunes of reflective white silicate sand. Using John Conway's "Game of Life" (an early virtual intelligence model) as a catalyst for the sculpture, the context of these cell divisons is changed through choice of materials and presentation. Now the abstract figures resemble data with no fixed value; and the data in the program itself becomes a point of meditation. These patterns play over white noise, as populations divide and conquer, creating a shifting topology over the sand relief. The reflection/breakdown of the projector's color wheel on the sand creates a false illusion of color as it mingles with the chaotic white noise. "Territorial wars" run rampant throughout the work on a continuous loop. <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923775/extra special ops1.jpg" width="640" height="451" width_o="640" height_o="451" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923775/extra special ops1_o.jpg" data-mid="14876125" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923775/extra special ops2.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923775/extra special ops2_o.jpg" data-mid="14876126" border="0" align="left"/> In Extra Special Ops, pixelated versions of four chance-derived, blown ink drawings go through cellular automata processes to simulate imagined population growth.... http://www.scottkiernan.com/The-New-Moire http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/The-New-Moire Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:35:00 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923695 <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 1.jpg" width="670" height="518" width_o="931" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 1_o.jpg" data-mid="14875705" border="0" align="left"/> Middle C, Badwater, Death Valley 2007, Inkjet on dibond, 24 x 36" Tuning to the lowest point in America. Salt flat, 282 ft. below sea level. <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 2.jpg" width="611" height="720" width_o="611" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 2_o.jpg" data-mid="14875706" border="0" align="left"/> The Singer, Not the Song 2008, cut vellum and sheet music paper, 8.5 x 11" <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 3.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1080" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 3_o.jpg" data-mid="14875707" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 4.jpg" width="670" height="580" width_o="831" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923695/new moire 4_o.jpg" data-mid="14875708" border="0" align="left"/> Middle C, Badwater, Death Valley 2007, Inkjet on dibond, 24 x 36" Tuning to the lowest point in America. Salt flat, 282 ft. below sea level. The Singer, Not the... http://www.scottkiernan.com/CG-CAT http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/CG-CAT Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:23:20 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923562 14 min video loop. excerpt above A computer speech synthesis program is fed the letters naming the base pairs in the first chromosome of a human DNA sample (A,T,C,G). However, the computer chooses to pronounce the letters phonetically as if they were words instead of reciting them as independent letters or code This creates a 14 minute long chant to incanting the name of DNA. The video consists of four images from American Sign Language hand gestures for the letters A,T,C, and G appearing as they occur in the audio. The visual element suggests the significants of “digits” (as in fingers on a hand), and the short circuit/paradox of man making machines to describe man. The video is displayed in two channels and arranged to form a double helix structure when projected. The submitted clip is a simulation of this made for a single channel. 14 min video loop. excerpt above A computer speech synthesis program is fed the letters naming the base pairs in the first chromosome of a human DNA sample... http://www.scottkiernan.com/Healing-of-K http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/Healing-of-K Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:11:01 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2923329 Healing of K is a 10 minute video (with optional installation/performance) based on a box of found taped sessions of a late 1970’s psychic healer and her patient “Kaye”. These tapes are cut-up and assembled into a single monologue in which the voice, played on a monolithic tape machine on a pedestal, addresses the audience in a manner alluding to a cult-like initiation or brainwashing. The work tries to collide theatricality into unmediated physical response. Initially, it tries to lull the audience into skepticism of this somewhat new agey/hokey material, to then drop them into the physical experience of a vivid color and sound synchronization. By recontextualizing the found tapes, I not only tried to give this dead record of a private therapy session a new performative life, I also sought to question the situations we submit ourselves to in the name of "healing", "therapy", group affiliation, self-improvement etc. and how these may oppose and co-exist with actual physical sensations. <img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk3.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk3_o.jpg" data-mid="14875060" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk1.jpg" width="576" height="720" width_o="576" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk1_o.jpg" data-mid="14875061" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk2.jpg" width="625" height="480" width_o="625" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk2_o.jpg" data-mid="14875067" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk8.jpg" width="592" height="720" width_o="592" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk8_o.jpg" data-mid="14875071" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk5.jpg" width="670" height="428" width_o="1126" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk5_o.jpg" data-mid="14875074" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk6.jpg" width="540" height="720" width_o="540" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk6_o.jpg" data-mid="14875075" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk7.jpg" width="605" height="720" width_o="605" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload31.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2923329/healingofk7_o.jpg" data-mid="14875077" border="0" align="left"/> Healing of K is a 10 minute video (with optional installation/performance) based on a box of found taped sessions of a late 1970’s psychic healer and her... http://www.scottkiernan.com/Garbage-for-the-Gap http://www.scottkiernan.com/following/scottkiernan.com/Garbage-for-the-Gap Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:17:51 +0000 Scott Kiernan 2919234 In the video "Garbage for the Gap" the line between a performative act and a narrative (with protagonist) is intentionally blurred. The imagery is from a series of walks in a straight line through the wildly different environs of New York City and the New Mexico Desert in which I wore a large convex mirror (typically used for catching shoplifters) on my back. The actual performance attempted to place the device used for surveillance (the security mirror) directly onto the surveyed subject and bounce the "information" back... producing a rupture in the visual landscape. However, as the video documentation began, I soon realized that aside from obvious similarities between my situation and that of a viewer watching a video on a screen, there were also actually a set of opposing mirrors at play... the one on my back and the mirror of the camera lens itself. Each of my steps forward (and away from the camera) placed a distorted image of what was left behind (the past steps) in both the mirror on my back and the mirror of the lens. This visual convergence of past and present lead me to think of the nature of looking into a mirror... how it is always a confrontation with the present moment and a corporeal record of the past. <img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 1.jpg" width="576" height="432" width_o="576" height_o="432" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 1_o.jpg" data-mid="14851822" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 2.jpg" width="576" height="415" width_o="576" height_o="415" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 2_o.jpg" data-mid="14851824" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 3.jpg" width="640" height="438" width_o="640" height_o="438" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 3_o.jpg" data-mid="14851835" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 4.jpg" width="634" height="480" width_o="634" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 4_o.jpg" data-mid="14851841" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 6.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="960" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 6_o.jpg" data-mid="14851847" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 5.jpg" width="360" height="480" width_o="360" height_o="480" src_o="http://payload30.cargocollective.com/1/6/210336/2919234/garbage for the gap 5_o.jpg" data-mid="14851874" border="0" align="left"/> In the video "Garbage for the Gap" the line between a performative act and a narrative (with protagonist) is intentionally blurred. The imagery is from a series...