My name is Daniel Conrad. My principle arts interest is color-changing light art, an art-form that uses LED lights and barriers behind a diffusing screen with a digital controller. I am also a painter, MFA from MICA.
I have studied color theories, and color perception. In 1972 I made a color-performance instrument, the “chromaccord”, using colored lights and dimmers, and performed on it in San Francisco. Moving back East, I performed in Baltimore and other locations, including the Orpheum Cinema (Baltimore), Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburgh), and Diapason Sound Gallery (NYC).
"Seeing Things, Personal Devices"
Medium: Four-Channel Electronic Video Installation
Year: 2015
"Seeing Things, Headscarf"
The 4-channel video installation “Seeing Things, Headscarf” produces ambiguity through simultaneous random juxtapositions of a woman donning a scarf. Conceptual art, quad-screen, and fashion challenge stereotypes: Who decides when scarves are fashion, when they signify devotion, - repression? Riffing on the popular video "100 ways to tie a scarf", “Seeing Things, Headscarf” sources include Audrey Hepburn wearing scarf-and-sunglasses in "Charade", Hijab, bridal veils, the Virgin Mary.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” is a 4-Channel video installation: Final cut pro manipulated video recordings; Quad-video-switcher (signal splitter) distributes 4 DVDs/DVD /players. Each quadrant of the screen displays a version of the same video, asynchronous and non-linear. For flatscreen or projection.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” involved performance and collaboration, and is part of a series created to protest Trump’s Muslim ban and systemic post-9/11 ethnic profiling of Muslims. This series [videos, installations, site-interventions] is informed by living and teaching in Morocco, activism and a Catholic girlhood.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” is a 4-Channel video installation: Final cut pro manipulated video recordings; Quad-video-switcher (signal splitter) distributes 4 DVDs/DVD /players. Each quadrant of the screen displays a version of the same video, asynchronous and non-linear. For flatscreen or projection.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” involved performance and collaboration, and is part of a series created to protest Trump’s Muslim ban and systemic post-9/11 ethnic profiling of Muslims. This series [videos, installations, site-interventions] is informed by living and teaching in Morocco, activism and a Catholic girlhood.
Medium: Four-Channel Video Electronic Installation
Year: 2018
Mary Anne Arntzen was born in Riverside, California and lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2010, she received a Master of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute college of Art. Recent exhibitions include the Funny HaHa, At Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA), Incongrous Animation at Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD) and Soft Power at Pazo Fine Art (Kensington, MD). Mary Anne has been the recipient of the Bethesda Painting Prize and Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist award in painting.