Metathesis, 2004: digital construct
media: digital construct within sculpture; outdoor lighting installation
exhibitions: SoundWalk 2005 in Long Beach, California - 2005; Powering Up/Powering Down at University of California, San Diego, Neurosciences Institute - 2004
publications: SoundWalk 2005 Catalog

Metathesis is a hybrid of the biological and the mundane; the imagery is the result of crossing human biology with light anatomy. Beads of light flow from one lamp to the other, and back again, reflecting a human circulatory system. With an electric interface of animated particles, a new science describes the inner workings of a common desk lamp. At UCSD, Metathesis included an adjustment of the site’s outdoor lighting: transparencies depicting the cellular structure of lamps transformed streetlights into X-ray machines. The cellular seeming circuitry draws a parallel between connectivity and human connections.