Bart Bridger Woodstrup

	Selected Works: New Work
	title: Gathering Lore format: software/climate description: Folklore, based on observation and experience, is in essence, a dialogue with nature. It is a conversation in which we are losing fluency, perhaps even affinity for. However, the need to understand and adapt to the changing weather of our world has never been greater.
	title: SUNflower format: Flash description: A Photo-Voltaic Eco-Visualization System designed as a solar data monitoring system for heliotropic, grid-tied photo voltaic (PV) arrays.
	title: The Hottest Year on Record format: video/vinyl record/mp3 description: Data from the Global Mean Temperature Anomalies* (departure from the 1880 - 2006 base period average) are used to manipulate loop-based samples from George Harrison’s “Here Comes the Sun.”
	title: Climate Control: Weather Damage Modification Program format: interactive video installation description: An interactive video installation that uses a control panel as an interface to hypothetically control the weather. Climate Control allows the viewer the experience of physically placing their hand on the controls of climate to manipulate a representation of it.


	Selected Works: Recent Work
	title: Paper Cuts format: CNC machined illustrations description: A series of hand-drawn and algorithmically-drawn illustrations that were then cut from paper by a laser cutting CNC machine.
	title: Song Cycle for Haruki Murakami format: video/computer music description: The impetus of this work was four quotes out of Haruki Murakami’s novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.” The intention being to create a new story out of fragments of the original story.
	title: soundSEEDS format: interactive sound installation description: SoundSEEDS are small, green-powered sound devices capable of recording and transmitting sound for use in a live audio performance system. Conceptually, the biological/botanical process of plant, seed, photosynthesis, harvesting, and processing are used as a metaphor for the electronic process.
	title: Figures in the Landscape format: interactive video installation description: Figures in the Landscape is an interactive installation that places the viewer inside a projected image of a natural landscape (wilderness). The viewer sees their mirror image as a human-built landscape.


	Selected Works: Previous Work
	title: Under Saraswati River format: live cinema/computer music description: Under Saraswati River has been exhibited as a live, audio-visual performance, interactive installation, and a multi-channel video installation. Saraswati is in reference to the Hindu Goddess of learning and the arts. Saraswati is referred to as a river goddess, because she is named for a river that once flowed in Northern India.
	title: Coup d'e'tat: Cote d'Ivoire format: computer music description: The music primarily originates from a Senufo funeral ceremony. The senufo are a tribe in the northern portion of the Ivory Coast of Africa. Music is played constantly on balafons, doso n'goni, and the percussive, metallic scraping of the caragnan.
	title: RickLicks format: video/computer music description: A music/video composition dedicated to the Rickenbacker "Hamburg" 1958 guitar - John Lennon's favorite instrument in the late 50s and early 60s.
	title: Alphabeta format: live cinema/computer music description: This is an excerpt from a live performance of the video using Max/MSP's Jitter.
	title: spOILER format: live cinema/computer music description: The pedal pedestal of fossil fuel economy machine. A patriot in her revolution, petroleum bloodstream.
	title: ESC format: live cinema/computer music description: First completed for a performance at version>03 in Chicago, ESC was designed to gradually build to an intense climax. The imagery of blended memories of landscapes creates a feeling of anxiety and claustrophobia - a feeling of a desire to escape.
	title: Cyberdate format: live cinema/computer music description: Cyberdate is usually performed live as part of Bart Woodstrup's (aka vodstrup) DJ/VJ repertoire. This particular version of Cyberdate was recorded at the Version>03 festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
	title: delrex® format: live cinema/computer music description: Only through Delrex® will your utopia arise.
	title: The Festival of the Pumpkin format: Super 8mm film description: This short film/video examines the "Festival of the Pumpkin" in small town, mid-west America.
	title: La Comandante: SILENCIO format: video/computer music description: This video was shot in the spring of 2000 in Havana, Cuba.
	title: Pixave format: video/computer music description: "Pixave" is the first completed work in a series of collaborations by artists Matt Biederman and Bart Woodstrup.
	title: dB Lullaby format: music composition description: The dan bau is a single-string, guitar-like instrument unique to Vietnam. Its body is made out of wood, but was originally made from bau (a Vietnamese melon).
	title: The Emigrant format: permanent sculpture description: The Emigrant (brass, steel, copper, concrete) is a permanent, outdoor sculpture designed and built by Bart Woodstrup and Andy Baack in 1998.
	title: Samay Chakra format: interactive sound installation description: Translated, Samay Chakra means "time cycle." It should be thought of as both a program and a composition, written in the MAX/MSP programming language to improvise classical Hindustani music.
	title: Shabda format: sound installation description: Shabda is a sound installation consisting of a metal box containing a CD player, amplifier, and speakers.
	title: 33AKQ5600 format: video/computer music description: Inspired by a poem of the same title, "33AKQ5600" was composed for film/video and computer music.
	title: Three Children Lie format: video/computer music description: Three Children Lie was composed with the intent to morph, through the use of the computer, the talents of the three musicians involved.
	title: Alex (from "You Cannot Survive the End of the World") format: Super 8mm film description: An excerpt from "You Cannot Survive the End of the World' - a 14 minute video/film about the future, population, and the environment.

bbw 2008