Artist Research | Camille Utterback
Light Field
Camille Utterback
Camille Utterback's Light Field is an installation using pieces of blown glass and mini projectors. I chose this piece because it's gorgeous and very appealing to the eye. At first, it is almost hard to tell what kind of images/videos are being projected onto the glasses, but after reading in the artist statements saying that she shot the videos in the meadows close to Pilchuck Glass School, where she was in residence nearby, it is easy to see her inspiration.
What interests me a lot about this work is that she worked with other artists in their specific areas of expertise to come up with a piece of art together. The film, the projection mapping, the glass, and the table fabrication were all done by someone different. The projected light onto glass and opaque chips and curves on the glass is very captivating. She uses the curves and chips to her advantage, knowing that the projection will curve on those edges. There are a total of 8 pieces of glass in this piece but only 3 different videos that are mapped out onto the glass. I think this artwork is very fascinating and is such a unique way of projection mapping.
Artist Statement:
"Light Field, is part of a set of works that combine hand fabricated glass elements with projected digital media.
The hand blown glass elements of Light Field were created at a residency at the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington where Utterback worked with master glassblowers and to produce the custom glass components of the work. The glass in Light Field was blown by Dante Marioni and Mikey Cozza with Camille picking and laying out the embedded glass chips.
The piece consists of eight hand formed glass elements, three micro projectors, three videos projection mapped to align with the opaque glass chips in the glass, and a custom built table.
The video in Light Field was shot in the fields and meadows around Pilchuck while Utterback was in residence there. Since the video of each projector is mapped to align with specific opaque chips in each piece of glass, with all the rest of the video blacked out, the overall effect of the installation is that pieces of video are hanging or embedded like amber in each piece of glass. Projected light landing on a curved chip of glass creates a curved projection, so the sense of dimensionality in this work is much different than projected light on a flat surface.
With this and her other glass & projection works, Utterback is interested in pushing the possibilities of projection surfaces, creating situations that take advantage of our depth perception and understanding of physical materials. This piece was first shown at Utterback’s solo show Sustaining Presence at The Stanford Art Gallery in 2017."
Project Team: Glass: Dante Marioni and Mikey Cozza; Projection Mapping: Simona Fitcal; Table Fabrication: Jeff Scott-Stevens
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