The animation is visible only through a free smartphone app that Baker Cahill created, and only when the viewer is standing in the specific location she delineates — in this case, a Palm Springs wind farm.
sculpted the Earth, often with heavy machinery, creating large-scale, site-specific outdoor works using boulders, soil and surrounding vegetation — all framed by the sky and lines of the horizon.?’” says Desert X founding curator Neville Wakefield. “Here we have Nancy, a woman, who’s making something on a monumental scale that has no environmental impact. It’s a very kind of eloquent answer to what land art of the future might look like.
After first focusing on graphite drawing and gouache painting, she returned to an early love of experimental video making, pushing to create work that was more and more immersive. The new VR technology was physically thrilling to work with, Baker Cahill says. The process involves mark-making in the air with a handheld controller and virtual reality drawing app. The images are captured by lasers and saved in a computer.
Once Baker Cahill discovered she could geo-locate artworks — meaning she could make them viewable only in specific locations — she got especially creative. “I wanted to use the technology subversively,” she says, “because of the moment we’re in right now politically, culturally, environmentally.” In support of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall, she “placed,” through AR, a female torso on the U.S.
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