{"id":5605,"date":"2022-01-19T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:29:01","slug":"uberorgan-a-sculptural-installation-by-tim-hawkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/5605\/uberorgan-a-sculptural-installation-by-tim-hawkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00dcberorgan: A Sculptural Installation by Tim Hawkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Yumeng Zhuang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00dcberorgan is a massive installation of air balloons with horns  whose notes are blown according to a 200 ft roll of custom code on paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddmusic.com\/gallery\/om32290.html\">http:\/\/www.oddmusic.com\/gallery\/om32290.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00dcberorgan: A Sculptural Installation by Tim Hawkinson\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pd9nU1J7QMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to a page featuring the artist <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/artists\/tim-hawkinson\/\">https:\/\/www.pacegallery.com\/artists\/tim-hawkinson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What feature of the work could we specifically evolve into a technique for wearable kinetic sculpture or costume?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air is used both for inflation and for generating sounds with the horns, which is helpful for reducing number of physical inputs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What details of the artist or concept are not immediately apparent and how do they inform the work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not apparent how this installation is built and rebuilt across different spaces and adapting to different buildings, but I think its freeform nature may benefit from the need of adaptation and provide unexpected results upon installation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.oddmusic.com\/gallery\/uberorgan6.jpg\" alt=\"Uberorgan\" \/><figcaption>Original  \u00dcberorgan installation in MassMOCA in 2001<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.oddmusic.com\/gallery\/uberorgan7.jpg\" alt=\"Uberorgan\" \/><figcaption> \u00dcberorgan in New York City in 2005. It looks very different to me. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Are there closely related works?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hyperallergic-newspack.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0716_TSUSHIMA-Takahiro_01.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;quality=100&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>&#8220;Masayume&#8221; by the artist collective \u76ee[m\u00e9] (2019-21) for the Tokyo Olympics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/663886\/giant-balloon-face-floats-over-tokyo\/\">https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/663886\/giant-balloon-face-floats-over-tokyo\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found a lot of inflatable sculptures, but I think this one is related to \u00dcberorgan because of its scale and the eerie feeling it elicits.  \u00dcberorgan can refer to the musical instrument organ, but it is also reminiscent of human organs. Masayume is less abstract, but both of them as blown up human parts lead me to see the powerful association I make between my body and alien objects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yumeng Zhuang \u00dcberorgan is a massive installation of air balloons with horns whose notes are blown according to a 200 ft roll of custom code on paper. http:\/\/www.oddmusic.com\/gallery\/om32290.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}