Rest

Rest, 1-4
Cole Pierce, 2009
Acrylic on Canvas
65"x65"

Active Archive

Active Archive
Cole Pierce, 2009
Oil Paint, 3.5" Floppy Discs, Nails
Dimensions Variable
Currently 58" x 80"

Tight Quarters

Tight Quarters (Signal Distortion), Excerpt
Cole Pierce 2009
Digital Video and Sound Installation
10'04

Tight Quarters, Full Version

The working title for this piece is Distortion/Tight Quarters (2009) and is intended it to be a wall sized projection.

The source material for the video is a glitch between a DVD recorder and a monitor. The audio was originally a piano recording, but it has gone through several generations of analog and digital manipulations.

Style

The infinitely reproducible item collides with obsolescence, leaving an emptiness that I associatively compare to the point past comprehension. 

Tv distortion video stills

tv distortion ending

tv distortion ending, originally uploaded by colepierce.

tv distortion

tv distortion, originally uploaded by colepierce.

Found Answering Machine Tape

I digitized a portion of this tape I found in the attic of a house I had a studio in (Colfax).  There is one message but the majority of the 20 minute recording is noise, cracks and creaks.  I might use it as part of an art installation in the future, but don't have any real plans yet. Download a high quality 243 mb AIFF recording of the tape here . Or a 27 mb MP3 here.