David Linton "Cortical Degausser"
Devotion Gallery
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Expanding on a work first installed at the conclusion of a 2011 Residency at the Clocktower Gallery, Cortical Degausser is a site-specific Intermedia installation in which visitors experience pulsating harmonic bands of colored light “Flicker” and synchronous sound “Drone” ( both generated from a fundamental frequency range of 10-15 Hz ) delivered via video signal that is in turn mediated by parabolic diffusion screens. The immersive relational environment thus established stimulates neurological mechanisms within each viewer’s own visual cortex triggering the spontaneous display of self animating geometric patterns which appear to hover in space in front of the subject’s field of vision with eyes either open or closed.
In 2004 David Linton embarked upon his present course with the launch of his solo audio-visual project: the Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System. With his "Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System" (2004) Linton aims to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space. He employs an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual "medicine show" emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider that within the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America.
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Schedule
from January 11, 2013 to January 27, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-01-11 from 19:00 to 23:00