Computing Services Building at Southern Oregon State College, 1991
DETAIL: CHAO TO ORDER: A COMPUTER MODEL, 1991 MEDIUM: ALUMINUM, BRONZE, AUTO BODY ENAMEL, LED'S, PLEXIGLAS, INDUSTRIAL OBJECTS
In 1991, I had the opportunity to design and install a 1% for Art project
at the Computing Services Building at Southern Oregon State College.
The wall sculpture was created in collaboration with my son, Chris
Guzak, a Windows developer at Microsoft.
We decided to play up the use of the building, as well as the existing architecture, and designed a fantasy model of a computer using symbolic language from both engineering and the arts.
This piece is a 65’ long indoor/outdoor wall sculpture
of metal, enamel, Plexiglas and LED’s titled,
“Chaos to Order: A Computer Model.”
It begins on the outside of the building with a black and white “particle field” of “electrons.” Through visual metaphors, the field is organized into waves, bits, then bytes and coded and connected. The connecting lines travel around the corner, adding color along the way, and jump through the entry doors to an inside wall. There is a collage of pieces that represent computer parts such as integrated circuits, drivers, control and memory units, keyboard, mouse, etc.
The final piece of the wall sculpture is an eight foot square, very colorful computer drawn cross-word puzzle of words, numbers, and visual symbols back-lit with 640 preprogrammed, red LED’s [thanks to
Bob Teeple for his design and fabrication assistance].
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