Communication Device
In late 2005 while still a student at Berklee I began experimenting with a series of communications art pieces that has been an ongoing project. The original intention was to create a multidimensional space that would transcend traditional ideas of the medium.
This piece could pass as an abstract piece of art, a musical composition, a language, an interface for a communications device, and a game. the first variations contained other visual art and music that could be played as a fluxus or intermedia oriented collage piece.
The original designs were larger but I found the most useful one was sixteen squares with a button to return to the top level. I had come up with the concept when I had applied for an iTunes marketing job at Apple Computer.
The work draws on a number of influences and subjects as diverse as the potential purposes it could serve, which include Victor Vasarely, the I Ching, Carl Jung, and possibly Sol LeWitt. Languages and symbols became an interest of mine in some later variations.
There are an unlimited number of organizational and communicative uses. Its original purpose was to be used by everybody and could be understood regardless of a person’s nationality or if they had a disability that prevented them from understanding written or spoken languages.
It was intended for release under the Free Art License, which would allow for anybody to freely modify and use the works.