mnartists.org: Bill Gorcica

Rowing through the Subconscious

Bill Gorcica — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:04:03 GMT

[url=http://www.billgorcica.com/rhizome2009/rowing01.html]Rowing through the Subconscious[/url] is a work-in-progress that involves a hand-made sculptural rowboat form with sensor-rigged oars that can be rowed to control the imagery on video projections. The imagery will be compiled from an ongoing series of digital drawings I have been creating over the past decade overlaid over environmental settings. Hopefully, this work will find a home somewhere as a large-scale installation. Suggestions welcomed.[url=http://www.billgorcica.com/rhizome2009/rowing01.html] [/url][url=http://www.billgorcica.com/rhizome2009/rowing01.html][b]View videos and images of work in progress[/b][/url]

100Plus

Bill Gorcica — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:46:29 GMT

This is an interface which displays an array of one hundred digital drawings from my artmaking process. It will be part of the Multiples Mall at the Walker Art Center on Feb. 21st, 2009. [url=http://www.billgorcica.com/100draw/100plusPreload.html ]View 100 Plus online[/url]

Still Image from Floating Drawings Chapter 2 Interactive Game

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:38:03 GMT

This image is one of a set that contains elements from my online game entitled "Floating Drawings Chapter 2". Experience the drawings as a randomizing game online using the link above.

Floating Drawings Interactive Sculpture

Bill Gorcica — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:53:36 GMT

Floating Drawings Interactive is a project that enables me to dynamically present some of my hundreds of digital drawings via a responsive sculptural controller. The work includes an interactive Flash animation projection that is controlled by an Arduino board mounted inside of a rocking sculptural form with four pushbuttons attached to it. When you stand on and rock the sculpture, you control a drawing object in the Flash animation projection, adjusting its position by leaning left, right, forward or back. When you direct a drawing to hit a boundary of the screen, a new one randomly replaces the previous one. Each drawing object has its own unique sound.

Art Croquet

Bill Gorcica — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:04:04 GMT

One player of Art Croquet at ARTHouse, New London, MN, July 2008. [url=http://www.billgorcica.com/croquet/croquet1.html]View online[/url]

Smallmouth Bass Wicket Concept Drawing

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:27:57 GMT

Concept digital drawing for designing 3-D wicket of Smallmouth Bass. Includes distinct patterning for developing carved and painted frames and wickets.

Smallmouth Bass Wicket

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:24:18 GMT

Wicket with ball

Killdeer Wicket

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:20:17 GMT

This is one of seven wickets that were hand-carved and painted. Each is designed to rotate the animal, bird, or insect atop it when the croquet ball passes through it.

Art Croquet Poster

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:14:13 GMT

Conceptual Drawing used for Publicity for Art Croquet in both Swan Song Contemporary Art and ARTHouse galleries.

Flora and Fauna at Maiden Rock

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:33:34 GMT

My Flora and Fauna at Maiden Rock interactive art piece was designed for Swansong Contemporary Arts Gallery, an eco-arts gallery initiative on the Mississippi River flyway in western Wisconsin, to showcase elements of this significant ecosystem. While making gallery visitors aware of the natural beauty in the local environment around them, it also invites them to become participants in the work by arranging their own compositions of plants and animals, and outputting favorites as postcard prints. They "play" the interface by clicking and dragging sliders to generate random patterns of flora and fauna from a set of arrays that include vector illustrations I created. The assorted flowers and birds that are generated can then be positioned and removed. Results can range from very representational to wildly abstract depending upon numbers selected and pure chance. Individuals are invited to output postcard-sized prints of their creations as a keepsake. This work is site-specific, and yet it is programmed using modular code so animals and plants from other ecosystems could easily replace the current ones. New sets of illustrations will give each interface a unique aesthetic and customized content to inform viewers of other unique places on earth and the flora and fauna that inhabit them. At present, a new version of this work is being considered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a touch screen kiosk at a naturalist station in the State Park system. You can interact with this work at: http://www.billgorcica.com/ff/ff.htm

Pan

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:05:31 GMT

Inspired by the film Pan's Labyrinth

Drops

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:29:23 GMT

This is part of my Dailies series which is a slightly interactive digital drawing. Visit the interactive piece by clicking the external URL.

091206e

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:08:01 GMT

This work is derived from a computer program that randomly arranges hand-drawn elements. Each time the program runs, it forms a different composition of elements.

Envelopes (click external URL to view interactive piece)

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:09:08 GMT

This is an interactive Flash project which needs to be viewed on my website. [url=http://web.stcloudstate.edu/wagorcica/env/env.html]Play online[/url]

Death Bird (Anthrax Scare)

Bill Gorcica — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:30:23 GMT

Large-scale digital drawing installation compiled of printed envelopes

image: Close-up view of Death Bird (Anthrax Scare) installation

image: Detail of envelopes in Death Bird (Anthrax Scare) installation