Cinchel - Ritual Habitat - Videos

Cinchel has a new EP released on Feedback Loop and has reedited some of my earlier videos to use as visual scores for two of the tracks.

track3-fire.fly.flash.flood. from cinchel on Vimeo.

track2-inherit therin (the mistakes) from cinchel on Vimeo.

Cinchel and I had previously collaborated on Disorientation, a video that was installed at Hinge Gallery this past summer.

WORD

Download - http://www.mediafire.com/file/wn6lowgvm4pnwej/Word.zip

WORD by Colepierce on Mixcloud

Field Mic - short documentary

Field Mic (Documentary, 2011, 3 min) from Ani Pandit on Vimeo.

Here is a short documentary of my history as an artist that connects the dots between my early collage work to my recent paintings and interest in field recordings and sound art.

Produced by Ani Pandit.

Featuring works by Scott Ashley at Hinge Gallery, fieldmic.com, collages, paintings and field recordings by Cole Pierce.

The Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois.

YOU ARE INVITED to join us for the second installment of ASCII.
The Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois.
A group exposition & offering of audio multiples.

ASCII 2
Thursday, August 4 -- one night only!
8:30pm - 10:30pm
954 N. Calfornia Ave.
(above the Rootstock Bar)
Chicago

Participating:*
EC Brown, Chelsea Culp, Ben Foch, Chris Hefner, George Larson, Bruce Neal, Catie Olson, Cole Pierce, Chris Uphues


These participants have been invited to adhere to the following ASCII specifications:
An edition of artifacts shall be created, to be distributed freely, or perhaps available for barter.
Editions must involve recorded audio.
Editions must bear your insignia.
Attire shall always be elegant.
Additional rules and specifications are available here:
http://www.archeospiritist.com

The attached images are prompts for this singular event, as well as the following video:

Field Mic Talk at IFP Producers Series

Able and I are honored to participate in an IFP salon/discussion series next week. We will be talking about Field Mic, our approach of curating content online, and sharing some our favorite finds. Please join us.

A comprehensive four-part workshop, the Producers’ Series addresses the challenges of producing a feature film. This intensive workshop is led by experienced producers and industry professionals, and combines classroom style instruction, panel discussions, case studies and screenings.

PRODUCERS SERIES EVENT: WED MAY 18TH, 7PM

LOCATION: The Nightingale, 1084 North Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642

DATE: Wednesday, May 18th

TIME: 7PM

PRICE: $10 non-members, $5 members

The IFP is pleased to launch a new salon/discussion series for media makers in the Chicagoland and Midwestern region: MEET YOUR DIGITAL PARTNERS. The goal is to bring together people from a broad array of fields related to media making, to exchange ideas and talk about developing visual and aural stories in a variety of cross-platform arenas.

With the convergence of technology, there is a lot of talk of making work that can be relevant across a multitude of platforms. Yet media makers may not know where to meet potential collaborators outside their usual circle. Stay relevant and make new connections by attending this open forum, whether you’re a game developer, filmmaker, social media producer, advertiser, audio artist, or cross-platform media maker.

Round #1 of this experiment features the following media artists:

Ian Pottmeyer graduated college prepared to be an opera singer. From there he became acomposer, then a composer of video game soundtracks. Now he creates the games themselves at Studio Cypher, a game design studio based in Bloomington, Indiana. As part of the three-man team, he takes on numerous design roles, from game to graphic to web to audio. Ian’s games are often marked by his desire to help players be as personally creative as possible. On May 18th, he’ll be giving a crash course in game design to help ensure that everyone who comes across your experience feels like they can participate and have fun.

Ben Groenevelt makes fast, robust websites for non-profits, artists, musicians as well as smallbusinesses and larger corporations. His tool of choice is Drupal, an open-source contentmanagement systems (CMS) used to build sites like the whitehouse.gov and grammy.com. He also, along with other open source devotees, spends his time giving back to Drupal’s open source community. He will be presenting, “What is this Drupal Thing?” giving a brief overview of what Drupal is and some of the powerful tools it provides to build dynamic, content rich web sites.

Cole Pierce is a Chicago based artist who makes paintings, video installations and audiomultiples. He earned his MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern in 2007 and has exhibited work at Antenna Gallery, Old Gold, Vega Estates, and is curating a group show at the Milwaukee Avenue Art Festival for the third consecutive year. He co-authors Field Mic, a sound art and music blog, and contributes music mixes to Headphone Commute’s podcast series. He is currently a videographer and educator at the Chicago Teachers’ Center of NEIU.

Jon Satrom is a new-media artist, educator, designer, and organizer. He performs realtime audio and video, celebrates obsolescence, and cultivates glitches. Satrom operates a production company called studiothread http://studiothread.com and teaches in the Department of Film Video New Media Animation at the School of the Art Institute. He will discuss “Strategies for Shattering Through Glowing Rectangles.” Riffing on Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema (1970), Satrom will discuss new-media art’s potential to sculpt stories, transcend technologies, and remix our relationship(s) with cinema.

Able Parris is a designer, art director, and illustrator. He learned graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design before opening his own niche design studio in Providence, RI. His collage art has shown nationally, and has been published internationally. He co-authors Field Mic, a sound art and music blog, and contributes to We Love Typography, the beloved typography site that’s like an FFFFound for type-related content. Currently, he spends his days at McKinney in Durham, NC practicing design and art direction in the context of advertising.

The Archeospiritists

Word, Cole Pierce Mix 2011

Block Print on Paper handmade envelopes,

and found paper cd sleeves

Edition of 73

ASCII, April 28th, 2011

Backroom, California Clipper

The Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois.

You are invited to join us for the first installment of ASCII.

The Archeospiritist Study and Consortion Initiative, Illinois.

A group exposition & offering of audio multiples.

Thursday, April 28 – one night only!
8pm – 10:30pm

Back room of the California Clipper
1002 N. California (at Augusta)
Chicago

Participating:
Jon Bollo, EC Brown, Chris Hefner, Bruce Neal, David More, Caroline Picard, Cole Pierce, Rob Ray, Julia Rooney, Kendrick Shackleford, Paul Shortt, Edra Soto, Ralph Syverson, Bill Talsma

These participants have been invited to adhere to the following specifications:


• Multiples will be created, to be given freely or available for non-monetary barter.
• Multiples must involve recorded audio.
• No direct digital transfers can occur during the timeframe of the event itself.
• Attire shall always be elegant.

Furthermore, participants may opt to apply themselves to the “Brute Nail's Cruel Etiquette” specs:

• 23 songs.
• The first word of each will be added together to form a description of its themes (a poem, a
• paragraph, a haiku and a sentence etc. - punctuation can be added afterwards at the creator's
discretion)
• All adherents must wear a blue flower (real or homemade) on the night of the event.
• Packaging should include a blue flower (marker, sticker, printed, etc).


The attached images are the prompt for this singular event.



http://www.archeospiritist.com

Go Lightly Print

Block Print on Paper

Edition of 80

Go Lightly Print

Cole Pierce, 2011

Go Lightly CD Case

Block Print on Fiberboard, 6"x6"

edition of 80

Go Lightly Mix

Another Huge photo of the cd I sent Ian. Listen here.

Go Lightly Mix

Huge photo of the cd i sent Ian.

Go Lightly Mix

Go Lightly by Colepierce on Mixcloud

Word Layer

Cole Pierce, 2011 Word Layer 2

Acrylic, Oil, Spray Paint on Canvas

36"x36"

Word Layer

Cole Pierce, 2011 Word Layer

Acrylic, Oil, Latex, Spraypaint on Canvas

72"x 60"

text painting in process - Cole Pierce

text painting in process - Cole Pierce, originally uploaded by colepierce.

oil and spray paint on canvas
36"x36"

Vote for Zombies and Vampires!

The folks over at Headphone Commute just informed me Zombies and Vampires, the mix I put together last year and was part of HC's podcast series, is in the running for Best HC Mix of 2010! It has been played 580 times on mixcloud.

Vote for Zombies and Vampires! Best mix of 2010.

Cole Pierce – Zombies And Vampires by Headphone Commute on Mixcloud

New Work

These are really new, not sure how I feel about them yet but that could be a good sign. I needed a process that was quick and fluid after working on those triangle paintings. I definitely want to try this on a larger scale. The text - Rest Note, Sleep Jump, and Balance Check have been stuck in my head for a while. I did a series of paintings using images of rest notes in 2007. Balance Check is a name of a mixed cd, which came to me as I was watching an olympic gymnast doing a balance beam routine a few years ago. And I've been fascinated with the sleep jump when I heard it mentioned in a Radiolab episode. Not having a real plan in place, I decided to make templates and started looking around for the right font. After consulting Able Parris (who loves typography) I decided to run with blaktur, because I thought it might be funny to make some dry conceptual paintings in the style of a rock poster. Then that idea seemed silly and I ended up mashing everything together, using thin coats of spray paint and the text templates in several layers. These layers were on top old painting experiments, so there is a lot of subtle texture not to mention the remnants of a floppy disc.

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (sunset series)

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (sunset series), originally uploaded by colepierce.

Triangle is the Strongest Shape 1 (sunset series)

Cole Pierce, 2010
Acrylic, Oil and Spray paint on Canvas
65"x65"

"This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency."

Triangle is the Strongest Shape #4

Triangle is the Strongest Shape #4, originally uploaded by colepierce.

I may have posted this before but I just cleaned up some details that were bothering me and took a better photo.

Triangle is the Strongest Shape #4

Cole Pierce, 2010
40"x40"
Acrylic on Canvas

"This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency."

Sutro Tower Triangle Waves

Sutro Tower Triangle Waves (2010)
Oil, Acrylic and Spray Paint on Canvas
4"x6"

Recently I was commissioned to make a painting according to these parameters: sized 4"x 6", the image of Sutro Tower in San Fransisco, and in the style of my triangle grid paintings. The new owner of this piece now has a collection of four renditions of Sutro Tower by different artists, each of similar size. I hope this cool project continues to grow.

Zillions

Zillions, Cole Pierce 2010
Oil on Canvas, 40"x40"

4EVA, Cole Pierce 2010

4EVA, Cole Pierce 2010, originally uploaded by colepierce.

Oil and Spray Paint on Canvas
40"x40"

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (Setting Sun) 1

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (Setting Sun) 1, originally uploaded by colepierce.

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (Setting Sun) 1

Cole Pierce, 2010
Oil, Spray Paint and Acrylic on Canvas
65"x65"

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (Setting Sun) 1, Cole Pierce 2010

Triangle is the Strongest Shape (Setting Sun) 1, Cole Pierce 2010, originally uploaded by colepierce.

Studio

Studio, originally uploaded by colepierce.

GLI.TC/H at Transistor, Oct 1st

I have a video screening during GLI.TC/H, please come to Transistor (5045 N. Clark St) on Friday Oct 1st.
The program is from 8 - 9PM, followed by performances from 9 - 11:30PM. Here is the schedule.


Video Program
8 PM, Friday Oct 1
TRANSISTOR
5045 N. Clark St.
Chicago IL

GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010!

GLI.TC/H features: realtime audio & video performances with artists who misuse and abuse hardware and software; run-time video screenings of corrupt data, decayed media, and destroyed files; workshops and skill-share-sessions highlighting the wrong way to use and build tools; a gallery show examining glitches as processes, systems, and objects; all in the context of ongoing dialogues that have been fostered by experimentation, research, and play. GLI.TC/H is a physical and virtual assembly which stands testament to the energy surrounding these conversations.

Projects take the form of: artware, videos, games, films, tapes, code, interventions, prints, plugins, screen-captures, systems, websites, installations, texts, tools, lectures, essays, code, articles, & hypermedia.

GLI.TC/H-BUMPER from theodore darst on Vimeo.

GLI.TC/H Bumper - 2010.09.29 - 2010.10.03

This is a 30 second bumper I made for GLI.TC/H, where a video of mine will be screening.
GLI.TC/H is an international gathering of noise & new media practitioners in Chicago from September 29 thru October 03, 2010.

Triangle is the Strongest Shape

Cole Pierce
The Triangle is the Strongest Shape, 4, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 40” x 40”
This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Danny Think Tank at Milwaukee Ave Art Festival

Cole Pierce
The Triangle is the Strongest Shape, series
This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Installation View, Danny Think Tank at Milwaukee Ave Art Festival

In the studio

In process - Gradients over triangle grid series
65"x65"

Post perspectivam

Finally, what of Alberti's window in this "postperspectival age"? Let me briefly allude to the recent technology of "digital image processing" that has almost entirely replaced conventional photography in astronomical observatories, expecially for the recording the most distant galaxies and quasars. This ability is the result of a remarkable postage-stamp-sized silicon chip known as teh CCD, or "charged-coupled device," which can be attached to a telescope to make it into a camera, and which acts like a photographic plate. Rather than being coated with light-sensitive emulsion, its surface is composed of millions of tin electronic "pixels" arranged in a rectangular grid.
Have we here the ultimate heir to Alberti's window? Just as the Renaissance artist transferred his earthly subject, square by square as seen through the gridded veil, onto his smaller-scaled picture surface, so the CCD collects cosmic light through the telescope, pixel by pixel, and then converts each photon impulse into a digitized electronic signal and sends it to a television monitor. Celestial bodies are perceived and revealed against the deep-sky background by the luminosity fluctuations and changes in brightness recorded by the individual pixel across the CCD grid. These digitized encodings can then be translated into computerized colors. Since the actual hues of the celestial subject remain invisible, however the image processor (as the CCD artist is now professionally called), even though equipped with spectrum sensors and chromatic filters, must still make decisions based on aesthetic preference just as do modern artists - or one might even say like medieval artists trying to comprehend the ineffable colors of the heavenly empryean.

The Mirror, the Window and the Telescope, How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe, by Samuel Y. Edgerton (pp 171-172)