Arts & Business Council of Rhode Island, Encore Awards

22 January 2004 5:00pm
at: Rhodes on Pawtuxet

A gala celebration highlighting some of the most accomplished artists and business supporters of Rhode Island. …with light sculpture surroundings.

Island Moving Company – Dance performance at Rhode Island College

This is some of the most exciting work I have done. It is a dual setting for a pair of dance pieces performed by the Island Moving Company dancers at the Nazarian Theatre at RI College (Prov)

Program Notes:

In June, Miki Ohlson, of Island Moving Company and Robert Kieronski, a kinetic light sculptor based in Newport, RI, met to discuss a dance diptych for the 30 October IMC performance at Rhode Island College.

Their collaboration evolved into a high-tech creation with original animated graphics. The first movement has dancers performing beneath a large projection of computer animation inspired by the work of Dadaist painters, Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp.

Between world wars, during a time of political unrest, the Dadaists witnessed the arrival of the mechanical age. Their art-work, while intending to be anti-art, reacts with both beauty and angst to the changes of the time. The techno-rhythm of the dance evokes this edge.

At the end of the first movement, the projected images transform into a large light sculpture with shifting streams of color. Intense colors mesh with the dancer’s movements to provide a resolution of serenity, a departure from the intensity of real existence.

We are reminded of the words of playwright Oskar Schlemmer, who observed, “Everything which can be mechanized is mechanized. …The result … is our recognition of that which can not be mechanized.”

Light Show - Let there be light at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA. And let it dazzle us during the dingiest months of winter.

Beginning Jan.11, artist and engineer Robert Kieronski will present "Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II" in the large window at the museum's entrance, using computer-driven machines to produce wild, colorful light beams visible from both indoors and out.

"The goal is to show off a real stunning work of art as you approach the museum," said George Fifield, curatior of new media. "I'm expecting it to just be jewel-like."

The secret is a material called "Dichroic" and specially contolled lights at night. A slow, melodic soundtrack accompanies the visuals. "What dichroic materials do is cast two reflections of light," Fifield said. "You get these intense colors at all ends of the spectrum, depending on the angle you hit it."

The museum is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and on selected Monday holidays.

Excerpt from Boston Globe article 26 Dec 2002

DeBlois Gallery - Newport, RI

On Saturday September 6th 5:00 to 7:00pm there will be an opening that features some of my work at the DeBlois Gallery, 138 Bellevue Ave., Newport RI. The work will consist of several robotic/kinetic interactive pieces with a Lumion light sculpture in the window of the gallery.