Ikons
Mauricio Martinez
Published: 2011
A cross-collaborative endeavor between visual artist Eric Metcalfe and musician George E. Lewis. Eric Metcalfe’s art practice epitomizes the Canadian avant-garde. His work has merged and crossed disciplines since the late 1960s: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, printmaking, performance, video and film. A pioneer in interactive music, the computer-based installations of ICASP researcher George Lewis provoke confrontations between agency and indeterminacy. The shapes and forms of Ikons evoke the wildlife and spirituality of the Pacific Northwest, mediated by a computer program that uses the detected presence of visitors’ bodies to drive a continuous recombination of sounds derived from a Lewis work for chamber ensemble composed for the installation.
