Evans Dances Baldessari Sings Lewitt is an interactive software, video and performance installation which offers a viewer a selection of 35 dances performed to the tune of John Baldessari's 35 song versions of Sol Lewitt's 35 Sentences on Conceptual Art, originally head in Baldessari's 1972 video "Baldessari Sings Lewitt."

In his video Baldessari endeavored to relate the tradition of concept art into the emerging practices of video art. Evans Dances Baldessari Sings Lewitt endeavors to converge the critiques and traditions both praised and satirized by Baldessari, into the now emerging practice of software art.

Th piece is controllable by gallery patrons via a wireless mouse and a scrolling menu built into the image. [ more information ]

AD 509 - Adv Electronic Visualization, Prof. Daria Tsoupikova

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