As interdisciplinary artists we are natural pioneers because of our diverse art/tech training and our instinctive sensibility for collaboration. We have devoted nearly 25 years in perfecting dynamic signature works that are pure "Laziza". These highly visual eclectic works integrate designs for solar windows, videoart, touch sensitive installations, cyber experiments, performance art and audio/visual sculptures. Our driving interest for creating these types of works is to celebrate synergy by embracing hybrid methods. Our innovative works tend to blur the lines between art forms as well as between audience and performers. Since antiquity people have been unabashed sun worshipers. The sun is a vital source of life. Our goal with AC/DC WINDOW INSTALLATIONS is to open dialogue about power derived from the sun through weather based lighting sculptures. Solar Roller is an offspring of another AC/DC Window at the Micro Museum - 123 Smith Street. These kinetic sculptures merge colors while providing visual energy in co-ordination with natural cycles of sunlight. The visual results change each day as natural light varies. Intense sunlight is converted into power through a solar panel to run the engines of the sculpture. Colors pulse through the rotating sculpture making ray patterns that bounce through loops and focus on the background surface. The quality of light in its angle of incidence, purity, haze, and color reflects the sculptures' intermittent moving patterns and designs. The installation can be experienced both from the interior and exterior. Solar Roller is operated by two power systems DC (free gift from the sun) and AC (utility co.) when the sun is not available. Over the years we have generated dozens of low-tech special effect tools to combine with high tech image-making equipment to make our videoart and sculptural works. These tools include lenses, installations, and lighting environments. It was out of this spirit that Solar Roller was invented. The dual sided lightshow environment created from this kinetic sculpture is recorded on videotape and used as visual content for our videoart experiments with the Laziza Electrique Dance Co. (Check out www.micromuseum.com for more details). Solar Roller offers repetitious patterns of organic light and color mixing that is an invigorating dance of chance in it's own right. Together people live in a global society filled with high-speed connections for data, voice and image transfer. Communicating through pictures, the global society shows sensitivity to all forms of visual suggestion. The populace is increasingly on the receiving end of strong visual imagery often with a direct message attached, making the difference between art and propaganda slim. In contrast, we do not sell audiences "a point of view". Our leading careers this interesting juncture where art forms and new technology are encouraged to mirror one another in surprising ways. As a result, most of our art exploration is abstract and non-representational. We advise viewers to keep an open mind and allow our work's natural vibrations to enter their body's keen Eco-system. Peace |