Jesse Stiles: Automatic Speleology

Location(s)

“JESSE STILES: AUTOMATIC SPELEOLOGY” (The Warehouse Gallery/Window Projects), March 9-May 29, 2010
The Warehouse Gallery, 350 W. Fayette St., ground floor, Syracuse, NY 13202;
Tel 315.443.6450; Fax 315.443.6494; website: thewarehousegallery.syr.edu
Open and free to the public. Hours: Tue-Sat. noon-6P.M; Third Thursdays noon-8PM.

Artist Talk: 18 March, 2010, 6 P.M. (Th3), Warehouse Gallery. Jesse Stiles will discuss his new site-specific work for the main gallery and the Window Projects. A public reception from 5–8 P.M. will be held on 25 March, followed by a dance party (8–10 P.M.) with a DJ set by the artist. All community members are invited to dance. Live Performance by Curtis Bahn and Jesse Stiles (closing event): Saturday, 29 May, 7 P.M.

Stiles, an emerging new media artist, musician, and designer of electronic systems based in DeRuyter, NY, realized a computer based installation for his first solo museum exhibition at The Warehouse Gallery. In the vein of Nam June Paik, Stiles visualizes sound using computers, LED lights, and video projectors. The exhibition is divided into the main gallery, the vault, and the Window Projects that can be viewed as one single work or variations on a theme: visual music. The main gallery consists of four video projections and LED panels, while the vault shows a multi-media cinema light piece. Stiles extends his work idea into public space via The Window Projects where he uses glass resonators to transform each of the three windows into a large speaker.