Ben Sloat

View from outside of second "One Blast" installation, at Force Field Project in Philadelphia. Raw drywall is installed to the exterior to hide the beam of light that travels surreptitiously through the piece. 

Entrance to installation

Finished piece, with mirrored floors. All the black lines are made of glossy plexiglas, adding a spatial dimension.

Central piece is an imploded structure that is several feet deep. The white central piece is actually a beam of light that travels through the entire piece, it illuminates a panel within a 20ft dark room hidden behind.

View of right side of installation.

An installation made up of laser cut panels, using the digital syntax of an 8 bit line.


Installed at NLH Space, Copenhagen, Denmark, "Academy of Light," an installation in a closed gallery (inaccessible from the street and viewed through a large window), constantly responds to daylight by refracting different colors of light during the day. At night, sensor turn on bulbs installed within, creating another characterization of light. 

Two music videos by Danish indie band, Mammut Is In Love, shot in my "Academy of Light" installation.

          
A 1/3 scale model of a 1950 Mercury is installed at NorthEnd Studios in Detroit, demonstrating the capacity of the car to construct yet reflect modes of landscape.

Ezra Pound's entire short form poem, "In The Station of the Metro," is spelled out using modified record covers. Pound himself described this poem as an "equation" with "splashes of color."

"Fate Machine" installation, comprised of a taxidermy bird and cracked patio door (functioning as an allegory of photography) from the 2008 show at Laconia Gallery, 'Death Is Just A Rumor Spread By Life."

A component of "Fate Machine", installed as an opera set for Stravinsky's "A Rake's Progress" at BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
An LED light embedded in a rhino horn beetle repels the advance of a brown bat, which seems to recoil, creating a shadow.

"Requiem"
A series of holes are pounded into an original record cover of "Thriller," which creates three visual forms: the original image, the silhouetted back, and an enlarged shadow.                             
dimensions variable                                         modified record cover, Fresnel light                   2010 

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