Oceanic Scales was featured as a part of the Algae Society exhibition at the MOXI / The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation in Santa Barbara (California) from April through July 2019. The Algae Society: Bio Art Design Lab celebrates algae as an unsung hero of the planet and invites guests to learn about how[…]
The Mobile Coaction Lab (MCL) is coming along nicely, thanks to the hard work of IMFA graduate student Reed Hayden and his wide range of wood craft and boat building experience. We’ve built the entire lab from native Maine fir and cedar, on top of an aluminum frame, to keep it light. We’re getting ready to take[…]
We had a great time setting up the newest evolution of Oceanic Scales last week at the Randall Children’s Museum. A special thanks goes out to Leslie Thompson & James Shedel for their continued dedication to the project and to Susan Working for making this all possible at the Randall. We can’t wait for the museum[…]
We’re very excited to be installing Oceanic Scales at the Randall Children’s museum in San Francisco this Summer for a 6-month show of the newest evolution of the project in conjunction with the grand re-opening of the museum after an extensive renovation. This newest variation of the project includes a new set of wall and[…]
We had a great time setting up the latest evolution of Oceanic Scales at the Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz California for the month of October, leading up to their annual GLOW festival. This installation featured our second outcropping form set up in the middle of the space and home to a new[…]
We’re happy to announce that a newly updated iteration of Oceanic Scales will be on display a the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History from October 3rd through the 23rd 2016. We’ll be setting up the full installation in the main atrium of the museum and look forward to working with the MAH staff[…]
Oceanic Scales has recently received a generous grant from the Maine Sea Grant to fund the final production of our App system. With this grant we’ve hired on two new student developer / animators to assist with the final development of the initial app system. New Media student Aidan Bauer and Computer Engineering student Jack Britton have[…]
Alliance Data & EPSILON awarded a generous Community Outreach Grant to Oceanic Scales, funding the completion of an educational app version of the project that also serves as an augmented reality system to help reveal hidden layers of the Oceanic Scales interactive puzzle. They also donated an array of designers and app developers to design the app and gaming[…]
Here’s a wonderful overview video of Oceanic Scales that was produced from the UCSC DANM program, during my time as one of their graduate students, where Oceanic Scales began as a part of my thesis work.
Featuring exhibiting artists Jeff Ray, Mary Franck and Kadet Kuhne, Jean Tarantino and Gene A. Felice II Water World is an immersive multi-media exhibition at Alter Space Gallery that takes viewers on a journey through environments that posits our physical state of water and into our deep consciousness that reflect our relationships with water. The artists[…]
We were proud to be show Oceanic Scales as a part of the Soundwave Festival in San Francisco at Alterspace in the SOMA district, during August and September of 2014. Here’s a link to more details: http://www.soundwavesf.com/6/july26/ Project creator Gene Felice also presented Oceanic Scales at an artist talk on Saturday, August 2nd. Here’s a link for more[…]
The Oceanic Scales & Openlab teams were very excited to be participating this year in in Soundwave ((6)) WATER, opening with a sneak preview at the Cal Academy this Thursday evening, July 10th from 6 to 10pm. We set up in the African Safari hall, right across from the Penguins display. Here are some photos of[…]
We had an amazing day on Saturday as a part of the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Celebration. It was a beautiful day to be 1/2 a mile out into the bay, right above the Sea Lions, Whales and Otters. The Oceanic Scales team was in full force with everyone pitching in to make this special showing[…]
Here are some initial images from the showing of Oceanic Scales at the DANM 2014 MFA Thesis show, in the Digital Art Research Center’s Light Lab space. So much thanks goes to the entire Oceanic Scales team that put all their hard work and creativity into making this show possible! This first gallery of photos[…]
Oceanic Scales is a place to learn and to be inspired. It is a lens focused on phytoplankton, the first link in the oceanic food chain. This project explores biomimicry as a tool. It breathes and glows with a pulse. It is a barometer of local ocean health. It explores the tipping point between humanities[…]
