Artworks
The Artists and Artworks appearing in DLECTRICITY 2021
1. Joo Won Park
Electronic Music Ensembles
Interactive audiovisual installation using networked computers featuring ensemble performances and audience participation.
2. Farah Al Qasimi
General Behavior
Video installation that depicts snatches of life drawn from the artist’s archive, held together by Al Qasimi’s editing and, occasionally, her own voice.
3. Takayuki Mori
View Tracing #3
Installation of “traced” sculptural objects activated by UV light.
4. Tiff Massey
Get Big!
Interactive audiovisual installation that immerses visitors in a real-time music video.
5. 42 Levels / Blair Adams
The Interactive Magic Mirror
Step in front of the camera, wave your arms, do a dance and jump around in this interactive video installation with sound.
6. Joana Stillwell
every day
Illuminated LED neon poetry inspired by the changing subtleties of seasonal light.
7. Won Ju Lim
Magic Lantern, Live
Live shadow play performance and installation based on Proust’s literary work, “In Search of Lost Time”
8. CMAP
Lantern Landscapes: The Past Spreads Out Before Us
1/20th scale illuminated “neighborhood” based on the DLECTRICITY footprint as it looked decades ago, and video projection of an oral history about Detroit’s lights in the 1930s-40s.
9. Amanda Parer
Man
Giant illuminated inflatable sculpture of a contemplative figure.
10. Yann Nguema
Parallels
Mapped video projection with sound and lasers featuring elaborate animations based on art objects from the Detroit Institute of Arts collection.
11. Abhishek Narula
All the light we cannot see
Interactive light installation using Bluetooth, wifi and cellular signals from nearby devices
12. Matt Sandbank's Shadow Factory
Still Life
Series of classic shadow puppet performances with live projection.
13. Steven Gutierrez
Creatures are LIT
Interactive video projection that animates creatures designed online by visitors.
14. Dumbworld Ltd.
Street Art Opera double bill
A double bill of two 10-minute animated opera video projections - "He Did What" & "Two Angels Play I Spy"
15. DLECTRICITY Livestream Screen
Livestream of performances, event information, public safety announcements and more!
16. Roland Graf/Assocreation; Michael Rodemer; Nick Tobier/everyday places
All-Nite Tetherball
Three LED-illuminated tetherball games installed on city light poles.
17. Mentalgassi
Illuminated Balloon Heads – Detroit
Portraits of notable Detroiters on large, illuminated inflatable spheres.
18. Yazmin Dababneh
YayaLand Takeover
Light installation of colorful dichroic lenses in partnership with Detroit Month of Design produced by Design Core Detroit.
19. Jake Chidester and Aliysn Malek / Corktown Studios
The Sidewalk Ballet AKA: The Arkestral Procession
Interactive audiovisual mechanisms that turns visitors into walking instruments.
20. Nature as Data (James McGrath & Gary Sinclair)
Ghost Trees
Video projection with sound created with LIDAR data from a eucalyptus tree that survived Australia’s wildfires.
21. Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt
Distances
Visitors virtually “touch” using interactive cameras and video projection.
22. Mariana Carranza
ephemeral angels
Visitors see themselves waving glittering white wings in this interactive video installation with sound.
23. Patrick Ethen
Pulsar
Circular data-driven generative light sculpture using thousands of animated LEDs.
24. New D Media
Bird in Paradise
Mapped video projection of a historical and dreamlike journey inside the mind of Jazz legend Charlie “The Bird” Parker.
25. Facing Change: Documenting America
In Our Image
Video presentation of FCDA Documenting Detroit’s 2019 Photography Fellows.
26. Logan Dandridge
Men Who Devour Themselves in Mirrors
Single-channel video installation with sound critiquing the intersection of athletics and race in the American south.
27. Mike Gould and Illuminatus Lasers
Lasers: Make Light Play
Interactive laser “lunchboxes” let visitors to control the laser displays.
28. Jake Fried
Brain Wave, Mind Frame and Night Vision
Three video projections of mesmerizing hand-drawn stop-motion animations.
29. Angela Fraleigh and Josh Miller
Sound the Deep Waters
Interactive video projection that translates visitors’ secret messages into images using Victorian Flower Language.
30. Orkhan Mammadov | OMA
The Idea of Saving Aesthetics
AI-generated animated rugs inspired by historical patterns, projected on the ground.
31. Layne Hinton
Shadow Machines
Analog mechanical light sculptures with light projection.
32. Allison Janae Hamilton
Waters of a Lower Register
Immersive 5-channel film installation using the material of land as a metaphor to reflect the range of emotions that the year 2020 manifested locally and globally.
33. Stephanie Dinkins
On Love & Data and Holding Space
Video projection that illuminates the power and resilience in black women’s stories, reminding us that sharing and receiving stories is an act of resistance.
Curated and presented by Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan
34. Studio Erin Taylor
Eye of Detroit
Interactive light sculpture where visitors’ shadows form shapes in the “eye.”
35. Tom Harman of LaserNet
Project Dali
Geometric-patterned overhead laser installation inspired by the artwork of Salvador Dali.
36. Pneuhaus & Bike Powered Events
Canopy
Visitors ride bicycles to activate large inflatable canopy sculptures.
37. Bradley Scherzer
POOF!
Kid-friendly interactive geodesic dome experience: feed the POOF!
38. Ralph Taylor
Time to Celebrate!
Processional parade and performance of illuminated Caribbean costumes.
39. Nat Morris and Friends
The Scene
Programmed music stage and dance floor based on “The Scene,” Detroit’s popular televised dance show from the 1970s-80s.
40. Pato y Pato
Windows
Live audiovisual performance inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s 1869 poem “Les Fenêtres” (“Windows”).
41. Tom Carey
Death of the Last Tree
A shadow puppet play about an Anthropocene fairytale for all ages, with an original soundtrack created by Kimberly Henninger and Shawn Parke.
42. KESSWA and Shigeto
Is My Mind a Machine Gun?
Live audiovisual performance harnessing the surreality of the collective experience and shifting of social consciousness.
Originally presented by MOCAD in early 2021 as part of Daily Rush, the museum's online platform for new media and video art.