Test Pattern

Tra Bouscaren

posthuman automated culture recipe 74,0512ezq:
“flowers of evil, gumbo variations”

01. glean orphaned objects from the local area

02. sculpt site-responsive vortex of trash from ceiling

03. add billboard tornado, circus, and styrofoam iceberg to taste

04. inhale live surveillance video

05. strain surveillance through lung candy emergency broadcast signal

06. broil materials and people in projection-mapped video broth

07. flavor with anglerfish neon to taste

Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
“Quantitative Easing”, Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, 2021 35,000 cubic foot interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
“Quantitative Easing”, Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, 2021 35,000 cubic foot interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
“Quantitative Easing”, Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, 2021 35,000 cubic foot interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
“Quantitative Easing”, Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, 2021 35,000 cubic foot interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
“Quantitative Easing”, Florida Prize Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, 2021 35,000 cubic foot interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs, and custom musical instruments: “Doom Chimes” electrified wind chimes, and “Bharptar”, 15 cross-stringed electric harp/guitar hybrid instrument made out of a found car door.
Screenshot of virtual 3D scanned sculpture
“MOTHER’S ROOM”, LabSynthE, University of Texas, Dallas, 2022 LIDAR/photogrammetry scan in a virtual environment
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Night Blooms”, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019-20 1,600 square feet, solo interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, neon, scrap metal, soundscape by Negativland.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Night Blooms”, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019-20 1,600 square feet, solo interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, neon, scrap metal, soundscape by Negativland.
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Test Pattern”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, 2022 45,000 cubic foot interactive solo video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Test Pattern”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, 2022 45,000 cubic foot interactive solo video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Test Pattern”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, 2022 45,000 cubic foot interactive solo video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Test Pattern”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, 2022 45,000 cubic foot interactive solo video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs
Large room installation with salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs and projected video
“Test Pattern”, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for the Visual Arts, 2022 45,000 cubic foot interactive solo video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, billboards, neon, painted photographs
Projection onto debris in a gallery
“Wall”, San Diego Art Institute (now ICA San Diego), 2019 2,000 square feet, solo interactive video installation. Materials: demolition debris, billboard, neon, security cameras, IR cameras, live-streamed news feed of the border crisis
Small work truck with computers and a projector. People are hanging out around the truck
“Peace Movements”, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, 2019 Material: exterior interactive projection-mapped video. Made during the California wildfires in collaboration with Collective Action Studio.
projection-mapped video on a large building
“Peace Movements”, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, 2019 Material: exterior interactive projection-mapped video. Made during the California wildfires in collaboration with Collective Action Studio.
Floor sculpture with rebar, neon, and a security camera
“Dear Volunteers” collaborative series with John Schlesinger, studio shots, 2019 Materials: rebar, lab clamps, painted photographs on glass, neon, security camera
Hanging sculpture with rebar, neon, and a security camera
“Dear Volunteers” collaborative series with John Schlesinger, studio shots, 2019 Materials: rebar, lab clamps, painted photographs on glass, neon, security camera
A complex media installation with found objects and lights
“All Tomorrow’s Parties”, Creative Machines (via MOCA Tucson AIR Program), 2019 2,200 square feet, solo interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs
A complex media installation with found objects and lights
“All Tomorrow’s Parties”, Creative Machines (via MOCA Tucson AIR Program), 2019 2,200 square feet, solo interactive video installation. Materials: salvage styrofoam, rebar, neon, billboards, kudzu, mealworms, palm fronds, painted photographs