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Constellations 2023

February 4 - 5 2023

Constellations 2023

The Universe is Watching
Constellations 2023

30+ mesmerizing and joyful interactive, immersive creations made by the collaborative efforts of 50+  artists, technologists, engineers, musicians and hackers  who gathered for a weekend of art-tech collaborative creative experiments in January at the CETI Lab to bring over 20 mesmerizing and joyful interactive, immersive creations to life.

Constellations: The Universe is Watching, the resulting show of these magical interactive and immersive experiences, shown as part of the Portland Winter Light Festival 2023

Constellations: The Universe is Watching

The Universe is Watching explores our fascination with watching and being watched. By the universe observing us through the light of the stars, breathing us into existence; by the cameras, mirrors, and sensors that surveil us, making us visible to the world, influencing our thought, perceptions, actions, and identity; and by the machines that increasingly study as they evolve to have agency, identity, and creativity.

In January 2023, a group of artists, technologists, architects, musicians, hackers, and engineers gathered for a weekend of art‐tech collaborative creative experiments at the CETI Lab at Portland State University—an exciting interdisciplinary creative weekend to bring unique light and sound pieces, immersive experiences, and performances to life.

Where:

CETI Lab @ PSU

Fariborz Maseeh Hall, Second floor

1855 SW Broadway

Portland, OR 97201

When:

Saturday, February 4, 4pm–10pm

Sunday, Feb 5, 11am–4pm

Exhibition Catalogue

Map

Artists and Works

In a dark room, a person stands across from a large video projection. The projected video mirrors the room and the people within it. The images in the video are made up of ascii symbols.

Among our Stars

Abhijeet Prem, Ezra Shuster
A large, brightly-lit, branching structure stands to the right of the image, in a room filled with purple light. On the wall behind the sculpture is a projection of abstracted anemone. The video overlays an oil painting of twisting shapes. The oil painting is framed with loose, fluffy cloth. Against the wall and on the ground is an arrangement of tiles and monkey tree branches.

Place Oddity

Abhijeet Prem, Nikita Andester, Rebecca Watkins, Chris Balduc, Victoria Garcia, Rhody Andester, Justine Lockha
A large swirling shape made of particles is projected onto a wall. A figure stands in front of the projection, to the right of the scene.

Space Junk

Ben Lane
At the end of a hallway, a video is projected onto a floor-to-ceiling scrim. The video depicts an arched doorway in a blue, fragmented atmosphere.

Parallel Rooms

Bernado Pantoja
A close up image of a metal black box with a small, text filled screen

Crimlins Foible

Brynn Caputo
An abstract video featuring rows of circles is displayed onto a classroom projector screen. A twister game is set up on the ground in front of the video. Three people are interacting with the twister game. (Each of the twister circles triggered sounds).

Beat Twister

Ezra Shuster, Justin Patrizi, Darcy Neal
In the corner of a room, in front of a window, are two large sculptures of mushrooms. One mushroom is double the height of the first. The mushrooms are glowing in rainbow colors.

FunGlow

Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp, Logan Vicker, and Ree Seminole
A group of people look up at a large video projection. The video depicts a beach scene, with colors shifted into hues of pink and orange. Beach chairs are set up in front of the projection.

Don’t Forget Your Sunscreen

Grant Mooney, Justin Patrizi
A screenshot of an AR art project. The image shows a sidewalk near a bus stop. Covering most of the scene is a depiction of a black hole, swirling with light around the edges. In the center of the black hole is text reading

Mini Blackhole

Heather Dunaway Smith
A highly blurry image of a highway at dusk. The scene is mostly blue, with a strip of pink near the horizon..

Blues for Baby and Me

Hilary Tsai
A person stands in front of a large, black board. The board has an image of a simple, 4 pointed star. The person holds a small magnetic light in their hand. The board has many lights on the surface, following the shape of the star.

Collective Constellation

Jacey Evergreen
A small room bathed in yellow light. The doorway is covered in a curtain of tinsel strips. Two small lights hang low from the ceiling

Bud’s Dream

Jacob Richman
A large projection of swirling blue, green, orange, red and yellow shapes

Technicolor Soft Serve

Jeremy Rotsztain
Two hologram frames sit on a table. The frame on the left depicts an astronaut. The hologram on the right depicts an eye and stars.

The Eye of the Universe

Kami Karras, Heather Dunaway Smith
A circular contraption with cats and dogs chasing each other

The Chase

Kelsey Kavanagh & Neil Kavanagh
A small, glowing sculpture of anthropomorphic aliens. The sculpture glows in blue light.

Small Object

Laurel Jensen & Brad Anderson
A person interacts with a small metal structure, mounted on wood. (The sculpture makes noise based on touch)

soul note

Leslye Gonzalez Juarez
Long strips of shiny material hand from the ceiling. Two papers with text are mounted on a metal column that stands in the center. A person interacts by touching a shiny strip and the metal column.

cây mong ước (tree of wishes)

Lillyanne Pham
A small projection is displayed on a wall. The video shows a silhouette of a person, mirroring a person standing in the room.

Strangers

Martin Smith
Several pedestals and benches are arranged in the room. Each stand holds a canvas. Videos of dripping color are projection mapped onto each of the canvases

Ink

Matt Sottile
A small plant pot stands on a stool. Led lights in the shape of branches are placed in the plant pot.

Reactive Bug

Matt Sottile
An abstracted video is displayed on a projector screen in the background. In the foreground is a camera and a tech setup filled with colorful wires.

RGB Scan Processing

Matthew Rempes, Thomas Fang, Jon Daries
A fragmented video is projected onto a wall. The video displays life video from the room, shattered in a grid pattern, and sometimes mirrored.

The Inverse Mirror

Maxwell Ettel
A grid of AI generated imagery of empty subways

Subway Tiles

Nandini Ranganathan + Chris Diana-Peebles in collaboration with machines

Locker Portal

Ree Seminole, Sean Connor

Untitled (Ritual Experience)

Reese Bowes, Melanie Bowerman

Everything is Memory

Sam Roxas-Chua

Requiem: A human implementation of a Chat-GPT directed installation

Scott Nieradka, Chat-GPT

Dynamandala

Stefan Biskup III, Darcy Neal, Daniel Young

Partners and Sponsors

Participants

Abhijeet Prem

Alex Hessler

Allyson Hinnen

Amy Meyer

Benjamin Lane

Bernardo Pantoja

Brad Anderson

Brendon Jones

Brynn Caputo

Carrie Clore

Chris Balduc

Chris Diana Peebles

Claire Cassidy

Daniel Young

Danny Suarez

Darcy Neal

Daria Bilova

Ezra Shuster

Francesca Frattaroli

Francisco Botello

Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp

Grant Mooney

Heather Dunaway Smith

Hilary Tsai

Jacey Evergreen

Jacob Richman

Jason Flynn

Jon Daries

Justin Patrizi

Kami Karras

Kelsey Kavanagh

Kimberly Moses

Kisti Knight

Laurel Jensen

Leslye Gonzalez Juarez

Lillyanne Pham

Logan Vickery

Mareika Glenn

Martin Smith

Matthew Rempes

Matthew Sottile

Maxwell Ettell

Melanie Bowerman

Nandini Ranganathan

Neil Kavanagh

Nick Loy

Nikita Andester

Nikki Brovold

Rachel Donahue

Reese Bowes

Scott Nieradka

Sean Connor

Shawn Przybilla

Stefan Biskup III

Thomas Fang

Victoria Garcia