* MIX TAPE *
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david fletcher & max miceli >
Mix Tape is a work that addresses the building's history as a wind tunnel and
compares it to wind that emanates from Art Center's new HVAC infrastructure;
thus, charting the manipulation of moving air from a natural tropospheric event
to that of controlled chaos, to being purely a homeostatic system that maintains
equilibrium.
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wind tunnel is a tool that is used to visualize aerodynamics, a visualization
that has traditionally been marked in some way, as with the use of colored smoke
or the application of paper or string grids to surfaces. This relates to more
familiar visualization techniques: the flutter of paper and tape on air vents
in the office building or the floor fan with tinsel attached. Mix Tape will
invite an investigation into perception and memory, as they pertain to habitat
by physically representing new air flows with an installation of sound and material.
Anonymous mixed tapes, which were purchased at yard sales or found on the street,
have been collected, combined, edited and distorted. As the new HVAC system
is activated this documentation will flow, audibly, revealing many histories
in the form of music, esoteric recordings, and personal messages.
Sound and wind, which at times are barely perceivable, will converge in a sensory
experience evoking fading technologies and histories within a new environment.
> bio >
DAVID F. FLETCHER is a landscape architect and urban designer. He is interested
in the intersections of city, landscape, and art. He holds an MLA with Distinction
from Harvard University (2004), and a BFA in Studio Art and BA in Landscape
Architecture from the University of California at Davis (1993). He has in professional
practice since 1994. In addition to having his own design/build practice, he
has worked for Jay Griffith on furniture design and landscape projects; Pamela
Burton & Associates on major campus plans, residential and commercial design
projects and most recently, Mia Lehrer & Associates on large-scale planning
projects for municipal and public outdoor spaces. His graduate work has been
honored by the American Society for Landscape Architecture with a 1st place
national award for his work with postindustrial landscapes. He also receives
an Honor Award in 2004 from the ASLA. He has taught Advanced Representation
at the GSD, design studios at the Centre d’Etude et d’Urbanisme
in Saintes, France, and at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.
His temporary installations have been shown at Connemara Sculpture Park, (1994,
Plano, Texas), and Harvard Design School “Barcelona: Public" and
"Bound" (2002 and 2003), "Found," and the UC Davis (California)
campus.
MAX MICELI received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California where he concentrated on fine art and illustration. He has participated
in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York,
and San Diego. Max has also worked as a freelance illustrator and designer with
commissions from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Animation Magazine, Nickelodeon
and Atlantic Records. His work has been featured in the pages on CMYK Graphic
Arts Magazine, Juxtapoz, American Illustration and The Society of Illustrators
Annual. In addition, Max is an Art Director and character designer at Klasky
Csupo Studios(Rugrats, Duckman, The Simpsons), where he has worked in the development
of various feature films and Emmy award winning animated T.V. shows. He has
designed animated shows for the likes of Andy Dick, Tammy Faye Bakker, and Ozzy
Osbourne. Other projects include development work with Trilogy Entertainment
(The Outer Limits, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Tank Girl), costume design
work for the movie "Monster", and concept design for Kid Koala's music
video "Basin Street Blues". Max is also a member of the Los Angeles
based Broken Wrist Project artists collective.
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