About the Project

Aggregation Transformation


Aggregation Transformation is an interactive installation created by four faculty members at UNC Charlotte: Ryan Buyssens, Kelly Carlson-Reddig, Heather Freeman, and Erik Waterkotte.


Designed and built specifically for the Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, Aggregation Transformation fills the space with a massive, multi-faceted structure fabricated of steel wire and bands and covered with a “skin” of mesh strips. Reaching 10 feet high and 20 feet long, the structure becomes a vertical terrain, whose ridges and angles, craters and protrusions aggregate interplays of form, light, image, and motion through animations, sculpture, robotics, and print. Projections play across the surface and also glow from within. Triggered by motion sensors, elements of this multi-media terrain will change in response to viewers’ movement through the gallery space.


Aggregation Transformation was the Projective Eye Gallery's second Summer Experiment, an annual exhibition dedicated to collaboration and experimentation by College of Arts + Architecture faculty. Projects are chosen each year by an external panel. It was designed by the artists to be dis-assembled and shipped to new locations for exhibition. The Projective Eye Gallery installation used six data projectors and two sets of stereo speakers, although the installation could include more or fewer speakers, depending on the location.

Articles

Interview with gallery director Crista Cammaroto on UNC Charlotte "The Live Wire"
Published on August 30th, 2013 on UNC-TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfWTKVlMsMA&feature=youtu.be

Experience “Aggregation Transformation” at the Projective Eye Gallery
Published on July 11, 2013 by Katherine Balcerek in Charlotte
http://www.knightarts.org/community/charlotte/experience-aggregation-transformation-at-the-projective-eye-gallery

Aggregation Transformation: an installation

Published on July 10, 2013 by Leah Harrison in Critical Mass

http://obscriticalmass.blogspot.com/2013/07/aggregation-transformation-installation.html

Documentation - Stop Motion

Documentation - Girl Scratching Animation