Salt Marsh Suite
Co-Principal Investigator
ICAT Cube, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2014
Funded by an Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) SEAD (Science, Engineering, Art, and Design) Grant
~Awarded tenure in spring, 2016

Salt Marsh Suite was an original video/sound installation and performance completed in collaboration with Carol Burch-Brown from the School of Visual Arts Department at Virginia Tech and other faculty along with regional artists. It was based on field observations, 3D laser scanning, imagery and sound recordings collected in a North Carolina estuary. The piece was organized into five movements that connected art and science, weaving lines between the lives of the marsh animals and plants and the strong environmental (and human) forces that shape their existences. Salt Marsh Suite was shown in the Cube, a state-of-the-art facility for experimental work connecting the arts and technology, located in the Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech.

My role on the project was to provide 3D laser scans and other data acquisitions such as video, sound, water surface flow, and photography of the Outerbanks marsh site and to process the data to be visually projected onto scrims.

Collaborators: Carol Burch-Brown (School of Visual Arts), Ann Kilkelly (School of Visual Theatre Arts), Tohm Judson (Winston-Salem State University), Rachel Grant Bella and Steve Williams (Theatre Arts MFA), Katie Conner (School of Visual Theatre Arts) and DongSoo Choi (School of Visual Arts) with support from the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) with support from the School of Performing Arts and the School of Visual Arts