Simmons & Burke
21 May - 20 Aug 2011
Project Room 1
SIMMONS & BURKE
"In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res"
May 21–August 20, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, May 20
Members’ Preview from 6-7 pm
Public Opening, 7-9 pm
Simmons & Burke cull sound and image from the Internet to create their dense, layered works. The collaborative team has combined over 15,000 found images to form a single piece. Similarly, their audio works feature endless loops of merged sounds, samples, and voices. The results are hypersaturated pieces with multiple narratives—not unlike Hieronymus Bosch paintings reconceived for our time. “We like the idea of making a Frankensteinian world that is both overwhelming and quieting,” Case Simmons and Andrew Burke have said. Simmons & Burke have most often presented the prints and audio together, creating enveloping, multi-sensory environments for the viewer. Their works are stunning visual tapestries paired with curious aural cacophonies.
In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res is the team’s first museum exhibition. For the Project Room at SMMoA, Simmons & Burke will premier their first installation comprise entirely of sound—an immersive eight-channel voice-scape. In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res will feature appropriated dialogue in the form of questions from internet sources. The samples are taken from amateur recordings of fiction—interrogatives cut from readings of such diverse works as Huckleberry Finn, Canterbury Tales, or As I Lay Dying. The questions are then programmed with non-linear algorithmic techniques that constantly rearrange and shift so that a visitor would never hear the same compilation of questions twice. The questions are delivered non-stop throughout the space of the project room, and will, quite literally, remain unanswered. The viewer’s immersive experience will be at once contemplative and unrelenting. The exhibition will be accompanied by a specially made artists’ book in the form of a score or libretto.
Simmons & Burke began their collaboration in 2006 with their Temple series. Case Simmons studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Andrew Burke received his MM from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Their work is held in La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, and in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
SIMMONS & BURKE
"In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res"
May 21–August 20, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, May 20
Members’ Preview from 6-7 pm
Public Opening, 7-9 pm
Simmons & Burke cull sound and image from the Internet to create their dense, layered works. The collaborative team has combined over 15,000 found images to form a single piece. Similarly, their audio works feature endless loops of merged sounds, samples, and voices. The results are hypersaturated pieces with multiple narratives—not unlike Hieronymus Bosch paintings reconceived for our time. “We like the idea of making a Frankensteinian world that is both overwhelming and quieting,” Case Simmons and Andrew Burke have said. Simmons & Burke have most often presented the prints and audio together, creating enveloping, multi-sensory environments for the viewer. Their works are stunning visual tapestries paired with curious aural cacophonies.
In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res is the team’s first museum exhibition. For the Project Room at SMMoA, Simmons & Burke will premier their first installation comprise entirely of sound—an immersive eight-channel voice-scape. In Media(s) Res, Media(s) In Res will feature appropriated dialogue in the form of questions from internet sources. The samples are taken from amateur recordings of fiction—interrogatives cut from readings of such diverse works as Huckleberry Finn, Canterbury Tales, or As I Lay Dying. The questions are then programmed with non-linear algorithmic techniques that constantly rearrange and shift so that a visitor would never hear the same compilation of questions twice. The questions are delivered non-stop throughout the space of the project room, and will, quite literally, remain unanswered. The viewer’s immersive experience will be at once contemplative and unrelenting. The exhibition will be accompanied by a specially made artists’ book in the form of a score or libretto.
Simmons & Burke began their collaboration in 2006 with their Temple series. Case Simmons studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Andrew Burke received his MM from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Their work is held in La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, and in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.