He often collaborates with filmmakers, dancers, and coders to create music scores that utilize his interests in just intonation, sonification, folk music, and sound art. For his residency project, he is translating the visual data available from the Camera Obscura mechanism and the kinetic information from ocean waves into music. He performs as a solo artist and with the groups Desert Magic and The Partch Ensemble. Īlex Wand is a Grammy Award-winning musician and composer based in Los Angeles. For her Camera Obscura public events, she is leading a variety of craft activities utilizing recycled bottles, fabric/leather remnants and mechanisms to transform waste into usable materials. To learn more about Dahn Gim, visit. Currently she is researching and exploring various materials that can replace animal leather such as gampi (paper) fiber, sausage casings and bacteria/yeast cultures, in preparation for creating her next body of work. For her residency project, she is archiving and transforming beach plastics into a series of sculptures, keeping this abundant material out of the waste stream, and highlighting both the problem of “forever waste,” and the overlooked utility of plastic as a resource. Riding with City beach cleanup crews on their tractors, she is gathering waste “at the source” and bringing her findings to the studio. For more information about the Camera Obscura’s Artist Residency program, visit /camera.ĭahn Gim is a sculptor/artist/curator who explores a wide range of media and technique to create her work, utilizing sound, video, textiles, drawing, digital prints, sculpture, and performance. The Camera Obscura Studio Residency program offers local artists temporary studio space and opportunity to share their work and process with the public. Their residencies will last fourteen weeks, from April 20 through July 17, 2019. – Sculptor Dahn Gim and composer Alex Wand are the latest pair of artists-in-residence at the Camera Obscura in Palisades Park.
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