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greenmarket produce scans at Brooklyn Public Library

ranjit — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:58:41 +0000

A selection of my prints from the greenmarket produce scan series – ranging in size from 3 inches to 5 feet! – will be in the (Un)Still Life show at BPL’s Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, opening tomorrow! The show will be up through December 3.

Many of the fruits and vegetables I use in my images came from the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, just a few steps from the library, so it’s especially nice to see them in the beautiful lobby gallery there.

More information at brooklynpubliclibrary.org

Some guy checks out the biggest print moments after we hung it

Timelapse: installing almost 200 tiny prints covering 9 years of veggie scanography

(mailing list archive) noises of summer

ranjit — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:10:37 +0000

I saw a firefly a few days ago, so it’s summer now, whatever the calendar says. Last weekend was the annual Figment Festival on Governors Island, and I brought back my 2008 wind-powered sound sculpture in a new cyborg body. Here’s a video:

I was lucky to be chosen as one of the Queens Museum of Art‘s sound art residents this month, so I’ve been working with my collection of vintage automatic music toys, and I’ll give a presentation/performance this Saturday (June 18th) at 5pm. The performance is free, but come early and check out the rest of the museum, including the famous Panorama of the City of New York! Event into: facebook.com/event.php?eid=229965507015603

Here’s the toy collection:

The following weekend, I’ll be at the Solid Sound Festival at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA) as part of Peter Kirn’s Handmade Music Lounge: solidsoundfestival.com/exhibits

Coming up in July: a workshop at the Peabody Essex Museum near Boston, the Sketching in Hardware conference in Philadelphia, and a field trip to the Lightning Field in New Mexico!

What are you up to?

trumpet marine at figment festival

ranjit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:59:14 +0000

I made a little sound sculpture – a sort of wind-powered banjo – for this weekend’s Figment Festival on Governors Island. Here it is installed on the island’s waterfront by Castle Williams, with a spectacular view of downtown Manhattan. (If you’re in the New York area, come to the festival this weekend – it’s free, and there’s eight million things to see.)

If the wind really picks up, the flowers will spin.

And here’s a video from when I was testing it on my deck.

Update: here’s video from the festival itself.

pix and sounds from 29 noisy noises

ranjit — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:59:29 +0000

Thanks to everyone who came to the 29 Noisy Noises party on March 1 and helped me celebrate finishing 29 instruments in 29 days! Lots of great people came over and made a lot of great noise on the 29 instruments — you can hear some of it below.

– more party photos from Andrew – more from me

electric jam Download audio file (01-electric%20jam.mp3)
“set up a groove” Download audio file (02-set%20up%20a%20groove.mp3)

coconut & foot Download audio file (03-coconut%20and%20foot.mp3)
your branca is leaking Download audio file (04-your%20branca%20is%20leaking.mp3)

konono no. 0 Download audio file (05-konono%20no.%200.mp3)
bang on a can Download audio file (06-bang%20on%20a%20can.mp3)

greenmarket produce scans in edible brooklyn magazine

ranjit — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:12:31 +0000

Some of my vegevision has been featured in Edible Brooklyn magazine! More information about the project and about purchasing prints from the series can be found on the project page.

brooklyn in color in brooklyn

ranjit — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:02:41 +0000

An exhibit of some of my Brooklyn photos has been installed in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue subway station through the MTA’s Arts for Transit program. The exhibit is open 24 hours a day through 2007 for the price of a subway ride, so go take a look!

photos from fluxbox opening night

ranjit — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 20:59:08 +0000

more photos at fluxfactory.org
more photos by Catherine Aman

fluxbox construction photos

ranjit — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:59:58 +0000

sketching device reincarnated!

ranjit — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:40:01 +0000

Since I’d long since disassembled the original Sketching Device, I made this new one for the PASS and Lawrence Hall of Science exhibits:

The base is heavy foam with a nice grippy rubber bottom, so it doesn’t vibrate around the table; the stage is mylar sliding over acrylic.

sensitive research at Siggraph 2003

ranjit — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:52:35 +0000

Sensitive Research was exhibited in the Art Gallery at Siggraph 2003. Here’s a few photos from the exhibition.

At first, they put it inside a glass box– missing the point of an interactive piece. So I sneaked the box off in order to let people tweak the knobs. By the end of the exhibit, both knobs were broken.

lev at artbots 2003

ranjit — Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:34:23 +0000

Lev performed at Artbots 2003, the robot talent show, at the Eyebeam Atelier in New York City, July 12-13, 2003. Here’s a few photos from the event.

Visit artbots.org to see all the other wonderful art machines.

If you were at artbots 2003 and have video or audio of Lev, please share it with me! I was too busy to get any good video of Lev in action.

mermaid box at 2003 mermaid show

ranjit — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 05:08:54 +0000

The wind-up mermaid box was exhibited at the Mermaid Show at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn. Here’s some photos from the show.

mermaid box under construction

ranjit — Mon, 26 May 2003 04:57:52 +0000

photos from artbots 2002

ranjit — Sun, 26 May 2002 03:16:24 +0000

Here are some photos of visitors playing with Sketching Device #1 at Artbots 2002.

For many more photos from Artbots, visit the old Sketching Device homepage or artbots.org.

some drawings made by the sketching device

ranjit — Sun, 26 May 2002 03:03:15 +0000

These are some of the drawings made by visitors to Artbots in collaboration with Sketching Device #1.

For more, visit the old Sketching Device homepage
~~Note: you can purchase any of these drawings for $45 each, or if you really hate them, I will destroy them for you at $75 each.~~