Caleb Larsen, Monument (If it
Bleeds, it Leads), Installation, 2006
Brett Walker, 40 Feet of Bread,
video still, 2006
Caleb Larsen is a young Seattle
based new media and installation artist. He was raised in the
northern reaches of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and attended
school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Originally trained as a painter,
Larsen attempts to treat technology, not as a gimmick, but
as natural addition to the artistic practice. His most recent
works loosely revolve around two central concepts: Language
and Mapping. Larsen’s current point of inspection involves
creating intersections of digital and physical culture by reinterpreting
online information and resources from community based websites.
At the present Larsen is working on a suite of
projects based on Google News headlines. The headlines are
processed in realtime and produce simultaneous outcomes ranging
from bizarre video montages to large generated associative
word drawings. Using computer programming, Legos, video, dynamic
images, and printed text Larsen aims to create an alternate
methodology for exploring contemporary culture.
Larsen holds his Bachleor of Fine Arts from Western
Michigan University. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Detroit, Canada, Greece and Romania. He attended
the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, the School of Visual
Art Artist Residency, and most recently the I-Park Artist Residency
in Connecticut.
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Seattle resident Brett Walker grew
up in suburban Portland, Oregon, and became interested in art
early in life. Walker attended the Art Institute of Seattle
and graduated in 2002 with an Associates degree in Commercial
Photography. Shortly after, he moved to Maine and attended
the Maine College of Art, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree in Photography and graduated in May of 2006.
Walker's work is created as a response to life
and the environments in which he lives and interacts. He is
interested in duration and repetition, and in re-thinking societal
norms and commonly-held truths. Much of his work is done in
film and video, as well as in photography and sound. The physicality
of these mediums allows Walker space to form a more real and
honest artistic practice.
During the past several years, Walker has exhibited
work in a variety of locations: the Institute for Contemporary
Art in Portland, Maine, the 916 Gallery in Seattle, the Student
Gallery at the Maine College of Art, the SPACE Gallery in Portland,
Maine, and at an outdoor video screening in Tampa, Florida.
He has shown work in a variety of mediums ranging from photographs,
to video work, to a custom-built 1977 Puch moped.
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