Moonbase
A Collaborative, Digital and Handcrafted Art Installation at The Village Stamford
Inspired by The Village’s mission to become a creative hub in Stamford, CT for connection, community and collaboration, “Moonbase” expresses this core message in action by bringing together three Stamford-based artists to create a one-of-a-kind collaborative art installation for the lobby.
This design combines natural and digital elements that evolve from day to night through sculpture, video projection-mapping and sound design.
Handcrafted materials made up of wood and steel display an elegant network of rings and lines, strengthened and supported by their connections and intersections.
During the day, sunlight casts shadows that travel across the piece as time passes. As the sun sets, the sculpture is awakened with digital projections. It begins subtly as the pathways, networks and connections are illuminated with light. The projections build in boldness and excitement as it gets darker outside.
Source material for the video projections is captured from the surrounding nature outside The Village.
For more information contact info@moonbasecollective.com
ABOUT MOONBASE
This video shows a behind the scenes look into the studio with Holly Danger, Jeff Schram and Mark Andreas as they create their first collaborative sculpture together for The Village.
Holly Danger - Video Artist
Holly Danger transforms ordinary spaces into moving experiences through immersive, site-specific, video art installations and live performances. She is also the founder of Danger Gallery, an immersive art space in Stamford, CT.
Danger’s vision is to project light into the world through experiences that awaken the senses, and bring people together to celebrate the present moment.
She mixes natural and digital elements together, creating vibrantly-colored, abstract, audiovisual art that is projection-mapped onto natural and architectural surroundings.
Danger’s recent solo exhibit “Let in Let go” was shown at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, The K Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, S. Korea and at Miami Art Week during Art Basel.
This year she is the honored recipient of the Artist Fellowship Award by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, and the Equity Match Grant from the Stamford Women’s Development Council.
DANGER VIDEO ART & PROJECTION REEL
Mark andreas - sculptor
Mark Andreas is a sculptor, educator and co-director of “Videokaffe” an international new media art collective. Andreas’s art work explores the changing role of time, hand craft, technology, and its impact on the present day human experience.
Andreas’s artistic approach is informed by his background as a boat builder, sailer crafts person and love of nature.
Andreas has lectured, taught and given workshops at Yale University, Aalto University, The University of Tennessee and is currently teaching sculpture and woodworking at the Silvermine Art Center in Connecticut.
For nearly 20 years, Andreas has exhibited his art work both nationally and internationally with exhibitions at the Cress Gallery at the University of Tennessee, Galleria Anhava Helsinki, Luda Gallery St. Petersburg RU, SIGN Gallery NL, CICA Museum, and Seoul Korea. Upcoming shows in 2021 will be at the Torrance Art Museum in LA, and C.A.P. Kobe Japan.
Andreas’s sculpture stands as public art in Peekskill New York and together with Videokaffe in Stockholm Sweden.
Jeff Schram - Music Composer
Jeff Schram is a musician, artist, and the Co-founder, Chief Strategiest and Tech Director of the Danger Gallery.
Schram has been an integral part of Danger Gallery bringing new technologies and complex strategies to life. When he’s not coding websites, projection mapping for exhibits, shooting drone videos, and directing the livestream performances, you can find him playing guitar, mixing beats in Ableton Live, and scheming with Danger on all their future adventures.
