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ANIMATED INSTALLATIONS IN THE PEARL In 2007 we were proud to present the first ever show of animated installations – 18 in all (see below for a complete list) including both indoor and outdoor work. The installations were as richly creative and inventive as they were varied, hard to categorize in a single definition. This section of the Festival was concentrated in the reclaimed industrial neighborhood of the Pearl. The Installations were displayed in both indoor and outdoor sites centered in and around the gallery spaces of the Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA). 2007 INSTALLATIONS
PNCA entry PNCA commons wall Video documentation at PNCA commons; originally driven on 13th, Hoyt & Glisan Streets PNCA BFA Gallery PNCA commons PNCA commons PNCA commons Performance Area PNCA IMAG Gallery PNCA 214 Gallery PNCA Sculpture Gallery PNCA loading dock, 13th & NW Johnson Street PNCA commons Performance Area Pushdot Studios, 830 14th Street, across from REI 24 Hour Fitness, 1202 NW Irving Street Not in competition Paragon Restaurant window, 605 NW 13th Street Lara Sydney Custom Framing window, 1230 NW Hoyt Street Maytag Building: 2nd floor windows, NW 12th & Hoyt Street Not in competition Parking lot wall, NW 11th and Hoyt Street CLICK HERE to reference the 2007 Installation Entry Guidelines. |
They ranged from Brooklyn-based artist Greg Barsamian's self-contained strobing sculpture, No Never Alone, awarded the Grand Prix, to the Argentinian collective Doma's witty, site specific, Conveyor Belt, projected outdoors on two intersecting walls of a car park. Some installations, like Eric Dyer's Copenhagen Cycles with its multiple spinning zoetropes, recalled animation's origins in optical devices. Others used the latest computer technology to allow interactive spectator participation, in Karolina Sobiecka's Stability; or to synchronise multiple layers of animation and live performance, in Miwa Matreyek's Dreaming of Lucid Living (awarded a Student Grand Prix). 
A walking tour of the installations began at the PNCA (1241 NW Johnson Street) and wandered out onto the streets of the Pearl district.