Mary NEUBAUER


TITRE / TITLE COOL ONE ( INSIDE INFORMATION )
POSITION dans le Parc de Sculpture Virtuelle (DAAP)
LOCATION in the Virtual Sculpture Park (DAAP)
18n 8e
ARTIST STATEMENT
COMMENTAIRES DE L'ARTISTE

I am intrigued by the streams of numbers and data concerning our environment that various recording instruments are constantly collecting. My work involves visual translation and three-dimensional display of numerical data streams using conceptually sophisticated surfaces containing embedded information as texture. These complex numbers serve as a permanent recording of urban, global, and cosmic function.


My work entails exporting statistics from public sources and graphing them as vector files. The numbers, dimensionalized after being exported into a 3D rendering program, fuse with organic form in a helical or polar fashion. Cubic Bezier curves, which tie in with my sculptural style, form the foundation of the images. The translated data is digitally produced as large-scale sculpture, 3D models, photographs, and animations.


The enclosed digital images, derived from sunspot cycles and factors of solar wind, are 3D machinable models, which can be manipulated in virtual space. Several have been prototyped. These sculptures have information-bearing surfaces containing the embedded numbers, enabling viewers to see scientific and mathematical data in a purely visual way. Some of the artworks created thus far have resulted in strikingly beautiful forms, often resembling patterns in nature.

I am currently developing electronic capture of dynamic, live-stream information. A vast array of topics (water usage, traffic flow, weather patterns, energy) can be translated into patterns of light and texture using interfaces. Projected information will produce ever-changed illuminated visuals as it moves and flow across the sculptures. These works, manifestations of real-time, numerical information, could reveal interesting cyclical information about active urban systems as well as long-term global and celestial cycles. I anticipate that my continuing effort to develop an original, aesthetically driven method to visualize and display heretofore hidden, but numerically available information will help aid in a public understanding of the complex and organic nature of large natural and human systems.