Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas), 2008
Realtime 3D projection, 4.5m x 6m
'Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez / Richfield, Kansas)
2008'
is a virtual sculpture that depicts a solitary aluminum
corn
silo on the austere landscape of the American Great
Plains.
At daybreak, in real time, Angelo Martinez, a Mexican-
American builder, arrives at the silo and carefully
creates a
black square on the exterior of the structure with an oil
stick crayon. Within thirty years, working a six-day
week
from dawn to dusk, the building will be entirely coated,
transformed into a dark object on the landscape. In
2038
the Martinez character will complete his task and leave
the
scene.
Production: Werner Poetzelberger. Modelling: Daniel
Fellsner. Programming: Helmut Bressler. Additional
programming: Matthias Strohmaier. Model: Angelo
Martinez. Presentation design / Corian fabrication:
Jakob
Illera / Inseq, Vienna.
