Self Organizing Still-Life (SOS)
- sound stimulated, kinetic interactive sculptures
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Self Organizing Still-Life (SOS)
The Acronym S.O.S implies communication within the trust of an interdependent social system. Fried has chosen SOS - Self Organizing Still Life, as the working title for his ongoing series of interactive, sound-stimulated kinetic sculptures, which premiered at Art Berlin in 1998. Since then, his SOS sculptures have been in numerous solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Whatever the scale or materials used for the SOS, all of these works consist of solid spheres, which are stirred into motion by ambient sound on a predetermined level object. Audible sound is transformed live into waves that silently stimulate each of the spheres into motion. The resulting action of the individual spheres and their interactions with one another are undetermined. They rearrange themselves in continually new patterns of elegantly fluid choreography. Some kiss, some spin off alone, while others race head-on only to meet with a soft embrace, or swerve around one another, often changing the path and destiny of each other without physical contact, as each sphere is able to feel one another. "The SOS is not like an oscilliscope. It doesn't translate the sound into a decriptive visualization, it transforms it into a live probalistic language."
Fried is able to give an individual character to each of the solid hand-made spheres, allowing them to respond and behave differently to live sound, though the artist is able to give each entire SOS a particular overall tendency of choreographic response. Like two people would dance differently to the same music, the spheres interact in a unique and live choreography directly initiated by its environment. When an acoustic signal is no longer detected, the spheres come to rest in ever-different constellations. (Still-Life)
As we simultaneously influence and trace the movements of the spheres, our attention becomes increasingly focused on the non-linear dynamic relationships that unfold between them, effectively shifting the emphasis away from the individual objects themselves towards a highly subjective glimpse of a bigger picture.
Creating a complex live visual experience, Fried‘s interactive sculptures are compelling by their symbolically provocative simplicity, as the viewer is moved to forge perspectives on relationships, life and the universe of thought.
click images to play videos: single sculpture documentation.
outdoor interactive sculpture moving to a john coltrane ballad, brussels .play
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self organizing still life with stone spheres. play
Musem Ritter, "Bewegung im Quadrat" 2006-7. Permanent Collection.
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interactive
sculpture WS-3, 2008. play
kunstmuseum würzburg: sculpture moving to stravinsky's rites of spring.
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interactive performance play
Video Review / Far from Equilibrium, Gallery Sara Tecchia New York, September 2007
Interactive
sculpture GG-1, 2008, 157x 127 x 15 cm. Granite, microphone, mixed media.
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Interactive
sculpture CS4, 2007, 52 x 62 x 9 cm. cast stone, mixed media. play
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sculpture WS-2, 2008. play
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sculpture BG10, 2007, 53 x 63 x 7,5 cm. granite, mixed media. play
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sculpture WM-4, 2008, 157x 127 x 52 cm. Marble, microphone, mixed media. Art
Cologne 2008. play
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sculpture BGM-1, 2008, 83 x 63 x 52 cm.(with base) Granite, microphone, mixed
media. Scope New York 2008. play
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sculpture CC-2, 2007, 52 x 62 x 9 cm. cast concrete, mixed media. play
kinetic
sculpture listening to kronos quartet.
"night of the museums" david fried at Jörg immendorff's düsseldorf
harbor atelier.
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