smART Space

Screens by Geoffrey Hicks

With Screens, Geoffrey Hicks explores the convergence of digital technology and traditional art-making practices to connect with audiences and foster interaction. This exhibit, created for Science Museum Oklahoma, utilizes depth-sensing cameras, projectors, video monitors, and Hicks’ own software as his artistic medium. Unlike a painting that hangs on a wall even if the viewer is not there to see it, Hicks’ artwork requires and includes the viewer. The viewer becomes both artist and subject.

Select programming is made possible in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Oklahoma and the National Endowment for the Arts.

JUMBLE - Julie Alpert and Andy Arkley

Jumble is an interactive installation that combines cut wood shapes, projection mapping, and original music. Up to 16 visitors at a time can interact by pressing buttons that trigger video and sound. Depending on the combination of buttons pressed, a unique sound and visual composition is created.

Synced to original music, colorful patterns are projected onto a jumble of cut wood shapes borrowed from artists Andy Arkley’s and Julie Alpert’s visual languages. There are oversized recognizable everyday forms like bows, chains, and cleaning product bottles, and stream-of-consciousness shapes abstracted from childhood and the mundane.

The goal of Jumble is to activate the senses by encouraging play and collaboration and to experience joy while doing it.