I first encountered the work of Bay area artist David Kwan at last month’s LISTEN/VISION 02 event, where I experienced Solaris, an audiovisual piece focused on the diaphanous reverberations of muted light forms.

Kwan, who teaches at Mills College in Oakland, is now taking part of Interplay, a new exhibition at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley:

Terra Firma is a complex video installation deployed by an automated system that “composes” a continuously changing landscape derived from video footage. The footage is generated from four different video sources that project images of empty landscapes to create a single on-site landscape in the gallery. Kwan’s visual continuum of shifting permutations creates a sort of “non-place” suggestive of our own interior psychological space. For the viewer, these images can provoke a nostalgic memory of our archetypal landscape. (description via Kala’s website)

Interplay
Featuring works by: David Kwan, Nora Pauwels, Bartosz Posacki and Steve Reich

• April 17 - May 24, 2008
• Reception: Thursday, April 17, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
• Gallery Talk with the Artists: Tuesday, April 29, 7:00 pm
• Gallery Hours: Tue-Fri, 12-5:30 pm; Sat, 12-4:30 pm