Brooklyn-based artist and performer working with light and sound. Thomas' artwork explores the perceptual errors, exchanges, and limits that shape our finite understanding of the world around us. Often this manifests in compositional systems through which images generate sounds and sounds generate images. His work with performance is guided by improvisation and often involves the deliberate misuse / re-imagining of familiar audio/visual tools.
Thomas' solo and collaborative projects have been featured at PS1, Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, The Elizabeth Foundation Project Space, the New Museum Festival of New Ideas, Art in Odd Places, Issue Project Room, Sideshow Gallery, the Mononoaware festival, Bushwick BetaSpaces, the Index Festival 2011, and most recently at the Splatterpool art space. He is a member of the Future Archaeology collective.
I will be giving a film performance alongside Future Archaeology which is premiering OHM3 at the ANARCHO ART LAB @ THE LIVING THEATER.
xACTION FILM @ THE ANARCHIST ART FESTIVAL (2012)
Documentation from an evolving performance that uses direct animation on 16mm film-leader, light-to-sound synthesis, and the
destruction of the film itself.
xACTION FILM (2011)
Documentation from an evolving performance that uses direct animation on 16mm film-leader, light-to-sound synthesis, and the
destruction of the film itself.
xCINEMATIC ABJECT I (2012)
60min looping HD (excerpt)
16mm "scratch" film scanned to digital and reanimated. The intentional removal of the filmic illusion leaves a slowly moving digital art object (or a film that has been stripped down the the bones.)
xUNTITLED (2009)
Ink on 16mm film leader and optoelectronic sound. Transferred to HD.
xFILM STILL (2010)
Installation. Ink on film leader, copper tubing, rewind hardware, spools. The collected remains from a year of film performances and experiments.
The film's original function is apparent but inaccessible..
xDRAWING ON FILM (2009)
Process-drawings made, exhibited, and discarded over the course of a gallery show. The drawings are made on a simple apparatus suggesting a loom. The process is transparent and the results are immediate.
xIMAGES (2006 - 2010)
Photo documentation from selected performances in NYC.
xACTION FILM (2008)
Performance for the camera. Direct animation on film leader, custom screens and oscillators.
xACTION FILM II (2008)
Performance for the camera. Direct animation on film leader, custom screens and oscillators.
∞SPIN CYCLE I (2011)
Looping single channel HD video and sound.
A powerdrill mounted HD camera flattens and warps space as it approaches its representational and mechanical limits. The filming was done amid the modernist ruins of Phillip Johnson's New York Pavilion (erected for the 1964 World's Fair) with an eye towards playing with details of its outlandish geometric skeleton. Note: All visual effects were achieved through the camera apparatus itself.
∞SPIN CYCLE II (2011)
Looping single channel HD video and sound.
∞SPIN CYCLE III (2011)
Looping single channel HD video and sound.
∞SPIN CYCLE IV (2011)
Looping single channel HD video and sound.
∞DARK DETECTION (2008)
Super 8mm film, custom screens, sensors, oscilators.
A short film edited in camera and composed for display on a light senstive grid of screens.
∞STRIATED FIELDS I (2007)
VHS tape transfered to HD. 5min looping.
Square wave oscillation interferes with a series of cornfields (an allusion to the early history of televisual images.) The sound and interference frequencies are determined by the light emitted from the source footage.
ΩMINIMAL SATISFACTION (2011)
Intro and verse of pop song time-stretched at a ratio of 1:33.
Rendering of a guitar amplifier and cabinet dimensionally stretched at a ratio of 1:33.
Rehearsal for live performance of Minimal Satisfaction. Jake Adams: Drums.
ΩOPEN CIRCUIT (2010)
Interactive sonic architecture and performance @ PS1 MOMA.
Chance compositions comprised of underwater recordings taken from the East and Hudson rivers. Hydrophony brings unheard acoustic worlds to the surface - allowing the listener to experience familiar sites of recreation, travel, and industry in an intimate way. External site www.hydrophony.com
Exploring the conductive / resistive properties of graphite and the human hand, OHM transforms the Splaterpool gallery walls into interactive sonic drawings. Part of the Dead of Winter series, curated by Maria Chavez. See the full event documentary HERE
±OHM II (2011)
Performance documentation. Crowd interaction is harnessed into a large-scale "human sound circuit."
