Artist Research: Camille Utterback

As an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art history Department of Stanford University, Camille Utterback also creates masterpieces of interactive installation arts. Utterback was in Bloomington, Indiana, 1970. She earned her master's from New York University's Tisch School of Arts. Utterback uses and combines several different techs to express with such as, projection, screens, LEDS. She often uses the kinetic energy of viewers or passerby's to manipulate and change her artwork. Other times, the audience is what powers the work.
In her work the "Aurora Organ", the piece needs the interaction of people. Hanging from the theatre's ceiling are six long glass cylinders. Parts of the railing for the second floor railings are installed with touch sensors that changes colors. When a viewer taps the sensor the hanging cylinders start to pulse with light, depending on how you touch the sensor: holding touch, continuous strip of light; short tap, small pulse. Therefore, the viewers are the ones who create the art and pattern, the cylinders even uses previous pattern of viewers if left unattended.


ARTIST STATEMENT:
My work is an attempt to bridge the conceptual and the corporeal.