Still from Illuminatoria exhibit
Sandra Gibson, a 2010 graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) MA program in NYU Tisch's Department of Cinema Studies, has created site-specific installations with partner Luis Recoder for a solo exhibition at San Francisco's Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception. The exhibition, Powers of Resolution (November 11 - December 18, 2016), features two works that explore vision and perception, with one incorporating natural light and the other utilizing artificial illumination.
The "pieces act as companions that, in their distinct approaches, emphasize the phenomenal magic of light, which so often passes unobserved." (Check out a short, mesmerizing clip of one piece, Illuminatoria, on the Exploratorium's Instagram feed.)
Gibson + Recoder: Powers of Resolution is part of the Exploratorium's Lightplay project, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and organized by the museum's Cinema Arts Program. That program is coordinated by 2008 MIAP graduate Kathleen Maguire, who contributed an exhibition essay ("Lightplay: Material Entry Points") that can be found here, along with a second piece about the show ("Obscurus Projectum," by Jonathan Walley). Maguire has also curated "musical interventions" within the exhibition space, including Black Field, a performance by composer Zachary James Watkins that takes place Thursday, December 15, 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM PST.
Congratulations to Sandra and Kathleen!
