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Improv: Autumn #1

p3trk — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:35:48 +0000

Mid-autumn, late afternoon, a chill in the air as dry leaves fall on country roads and an orange sun sinks behind the hills.

Photo by Nicholas T: http://bit.ly/tD7RWw

Orbitron

p3trk — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:36:57 +0000

Orbitron is a website which generates completely unique randomly colored concentric discs which the visitor may share or purchase as a physical badge.

Visit the Orbitron Site

November 13 2010

p3trk — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:03:54 +0000

Wet Turtle Bay

p3trk — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:43:58 +0000

Grand Central: People Studies

p3trk — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:46:35 +0000

A series of photographs taken in Grand Central Station around 2000. I took these with an old Sony Mavica digital camera that allowed you to optically blur the image via a manual-focus lens.

Spam Words

p3trk — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:45:19 +0000

2005

Random pairings of words from a file discovered on the artist’s hard-drive in 2004. It is believed that these “pseudo-words” were used by “spammers” to deceive spam filters by mimicking actual email.

View the animated online piece.

Americana

p3trk — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:06:20 +0000

A series of Piano Improvisations done in late spring, 2009. Available for purchase here.

Filibuster

p3trk — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:53:18 +0000

2004

With Senator Buddy and Abigail Guay. Senator Buddy spoke for 14 hours straight while Peter transcribed selected pieces of speech into text for animated projection in the gallery space. Custom software.

Color by Number: Pi

p3trk — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:43:28 +0000

Photographer and painter Angela Hill has synesthesia, meaning that she has a strong association between colors and numbers: eg. 1 = white, 2 = yellow, etc. Using the color palette informed by her synesthesia, Peter has created several pieces around math and color. Color by Number: Pi depicts the mathematical constant pi.

Mountains

p3trk — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:53:51 +0000

Based on simple rules to define cycles of repetition and variation, this series creates artificial folds and layers in the same way sedimentary rock forms.