Projects

matthewryanbarton@gmail.com

 

Time-O-Rama: Electric Infinity with Real Plastic, 2006

A large installation; 20 mechanized taxidermy animals, two video projections, 5 sound cd's, flowers blooming, leaves falling and changing colors, lightning and thunder, wine was dispensed from a nozzle sticking oout of the deer's ribs...I was trying to create a mystical reality, the experience of the collapse of time and space into a single point of reality, while being self-aware the paradox of creating such a reality using time-based media in a space. Special thanks to Anna Bojic for all her generous time and effort.

Diorama video clip (some clips take 30-60 seconds)
- Quicktime, ~12.5 Mb

Cloud video
- Quicktime, ~6 Mb

Reception video
- Quicktime, ~7.5 Mb

 

Extreme Animalz: the Movie, Part 1, 2005

A collaboration with Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad, 40 animals, 21 motors, a motion sensor, 3 flat screens, exhibited at the New Museum's Rhizome Artbase 101 show.

Extreme Animalz clip (some clips take 30-60 seconds)
- Quicktime, ~10.1 Mb

 

Seesaw II, 2005
Project in Ballabio, near Lake Como, Italy. --2005
Italy clip
- Quicktime, ~4.1 Mb

 

Seesaw I, 2003
Project for Mildred's Daughters Urban Farm, Pittsburgh, PA. --2004
seesaw video clip
- Quicktime, ~6.1 Mb

 

Call of the Wild, 2004

Performance fro AMP performance series, Pittsburgh, PA--2004

video clip
- Quicktime, ~3.8 Mb

 

Crossroads, 2005

5 minute video--2004

speaking, dying, lift-off clip
- Quicktime, ~1.7 Mb

woods/street clip

- Quicktime, ~1.2 Mb

 

Johnny Steel at the Filler, 2003

I tried to share "The Filling Station" bar in Bozeman, Montana with Pittsburgh. I made a cardboard miniature of the bar and projected a recording I had made in the real bar of Johnny Steel and the Decline of the West. I served 16 oz cans of Pabst and did shots of Makers with lots of people. After the openning it really smelled like a bar and was left a mess of peanut shells, empty cans, and cigarette butts with the band playing non stop for the remaining three weeks of a show at Future Tenant Gallery. The energy did transfer, there was dancing.

Filler clip
- Quicktime, ~6.6 Mb

 

Wonderhorse, 2002
 
tricycle clip
- Quicktime, ~4.4 Mb

 

Moth Show, 2002

Hand cranked large "music" box with moths, black and white photos, and sound.

video clip
- Quicktime, ~15.2 Mb

 

Canon, 2001

Installation - black and white photos, amplified instruments, mechanical components.

video clip
- Quicktime, ~9.2 Mb