Color Impact 2023 was a great success. These pages are left here for archival purposes.

We hope to see you at a future Color Council meeting! Our next conference in June 2025.


June 11-15, 2023

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA


Short Course Presenter - Amanda Long


Amanda Long, Artist 

LOVE CANAL AUGMENTED Site : Nonsite (Where Did the Love Go?) -  Wednesday 4:30 - 5:30

Site : Nonsite (Where Did the Love Go?) is an exploration of public space, memory, and conceptual art in relation to Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY. Starting with the premise that reclaimed Superfund sites should be displayed as works in progress representing ecological and social healing, this course in speculative design expands upon the legacy of Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Mel Chin to create a framework for public art as ecological activism. Works of public sculpture, civic markers, text, video, and digital phytoremediation gardens will be created to mark and commemorate the first Superfund site, using augmented reality (AR) with the open-source software Hoverlay to bring the site of Love Canal to the viewer. Speculatively, the Niagara Falls City Council is undertaking an exciting new project, Love Canal Augmented, which is a virtual walking tour showcasing the major ecological preservation mechanisms of the first Superfund site and its key properties and history visualized with AR. The program will launch at the ISCC conference in June 2023. Artists interested in contributing AR artwork or simply learning more about AR with Hoverlay are encouraged to attend the workshop. The workshop includes an app with the AR open-source platform Hoverlay being utilized, along with a demo of the production process and timeline. No previous AR experience is required. This interactive workshop will be an opportunity to ask questions and discuss ideas. We will also look at what other sites, for example the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are doing with AR; the big difference between those projects and this one is that this one uses free software, which reduces the price for participants. Curiosity and creativity are greatly encouraged! Currently, the Love Canal site has only a fence and "Do Not Trespass" signage. In response to this lack of information, the creative workshop focuses on the intersection of the environment and data visualization, with emerging technology layering information about the site with an AR app. Special emphasis in the activity will be given to color and computer vision for communicating toxic waste danger and polychromy.  

Light Wave - Video Installation

Light Wave (prototype) Materials: 336 LEDS, fadecandy, raspberry pi, webcam This is a site-specific video installation with the live feed of a webcam displayed on a handmade LED screen. It is an LED video mirror reflecting the room and the input of the camera. The LED array is built into a fabric mesh that is flexible, like a curtain. The process of obfuscation of the information disseminated is explored through the low-resolution presentation on an LED screen. The code was generated in Python using preexisting code libraries from GitHub. A draft of the project is linked here: https://github.com/amandalong/Light-Wave and here: https://www.amandalong.org/Light-Wave-prototype

Bio

Amanda Long creates interactive video sculptures that collaborate with and reflect the viewers’ social experience. Her exhibitions include Wishing Well, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, New York City (2016); Portal at Socrates Sculpture Park, New York City (2014) and the Animation Station at OliOli in Doha, Qatar (2022).  amandalong.org



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