Included in the show is Toronto artist Rae Davis’ “Chromatic Fall.”  Voices speak randomly selected phrases.  Through the duration of the piece, the phrases are increasingly layered until they become white noise.  A projected spectrum band (with the 7 colors of the Newtonian spectrum), fully saturated,  loses intensity until it becomes white light.  This piece is the fifth of Five Fugues for Isaac Newton, a performance work originally planned in 1969, but not produced until 2000 when the technology required became available.

New York artist John Kalymnios presents "Projection," an exploration of nature through mechanical means.  This projection creates an illusion of space and movement which becomes entrancingly meditative. The sculpture conveys three-dimensional space by utilizing sculptural, mechanical, photographic and the projective process, thus achieving a cinematic observation of the movement of the sea and clouds.

“Ode to Messmer” is an automated sculpture by hometown favorite Frank Pahl.  An image of a woman falling under the influence of hypnosis is illustrated through the use of a unique animation technique developed by Pahl, and activated by some of his automatic musical instruments.Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series guests silt present a projected video environment in the basement space.

U of M A&D Penny Stamps Distinguished Visitor Series guests silt present a projected video environment in the basement space.

Anne Walsh's "Parrot Suite" videos feature the modern automaton parrot "Pete," whose recording chip and playback speaker allow it to repeat, within a narrow pitch range, a portion of any sound it hears. Each piece uses the artist's own live voice, sound effects, location sound, recorded voice, and/or the parrot's own feedback capacity (in combination with a second parrot) as a soundtrack-interlocutor. The parrot becomes child, lover, antagonist, teacher, student, friend, enemy, musical instrument, machine, echo.  When shown in its single-channel format, the videos are sequenced to gradually reveal both the technical logic of the toy and at the same time to narrate a perverse and tragic subjectivity for parrot.