Erika Lincoln
Fugue State of: A Composition 4 a Wacked Out Satellite IF…I whisper up towards the stars: THEN…Would you fall from the sky into me?
The first of Video Pool’s 4-part DATA Exhibition series
May 17 – June 24, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday May 17, 2019
In 2016, the Japanese satellite Hitomi-ASTRO-H spun out of orbit and broke up. The cause of the accident was ascribed to both software and human error. In reading multiple reports on this event, Lincoln was interested in the anthropomorphic language used to describe the satellite’s behaviour just before the breakup. Lincoln began to explore this assigned agency by speculating on what Hitomi’s “state of mind” would be from dealing with the conflicting error messages. The result is an installation of two sculptural works, Aerial Effusions and Hitomi, in a conversation. Between the two works a generative audio composition is developed based on Bach’s Thema Regium fugue where Hitomi is executing the program while being bombarded by communications from Aerial Effusions. The composition changes in tone and evokes the secondary meaning of the word fugue: a dissociative state, where a person is prone to wandering and suffers from loss of memory and identity.
Aerial Effusions. 2019. Limestone, aluminum, electronics, brass, resin, lights.
Hitomi 2018. Electronics, ABS, metal leaf, audio, software, speakers, mic stands.
BIOGRAPHY:
Erika Lincoln is a Canadian artist whose practice is centred around how cognitive systems hold knowledge, transmit ideas, and control behaviour. She works primarily in sculpture and includes drawing, sound, video, and kinetics as part of her approach. Over the past 20 years she has exhibited in galleries, media art festivals, and museums in North America, Europe, and Australia. Erika has participated in residencies at the Banff New Media Institute in Canada (2005,2009,2018), Medialab Prado in Spain (2009/10), and as Artist in Residence with City of Winnipeg’s Planning Department (2014/15). Exhibition highlights are; Fake. Science Gallery Dublin. Dublin, Ireland. (2018). Stealing from the Real. Boston Cyberarts Gallery. Boston, USA. (2015). Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts. Bauhaus-Archiv. Berlin, Germany. (2014). Machines – The Shapes of Movement, Manifestation Internationale d’Art du Quebec. Quebec, Canada. (2012). The Singing Condition. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg, Canada. (2011).
This is the first of Video Pool’s 4-part DATA Exhibition series. Future artists include Helga Jakobson, Reva Stone and Ken Gregory.
The Diversity through Access to Technology + Art program (DATA) provides mentorship, education and career development opportunities to artists with disabilities who are interested in incorporating technology into their arts practice. It is a year long mentorship and includes both mentor and mentee exhibitions throughout the next year. DATA is a collaboration with the Arts AccessAbility Network Manitoba (AANM) and is generously supported by the Winnipeg Foundation and the Manitoba Arts Council, with additional support from Assiniboine Credit Union. For more information about this or our other residency programs please visit HERE and click the DATA tab.