ian decelli

Drawing: Swarm Intelligence

2012-03-11T12:39:00.001-04:00

OPENING RECEPTION

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14TH 5-7PM

NHIA AMHERST GALLERY - 77 AMHERST ST, MANCHESTER, NH

Three wall-size collaborative works of art, created on site in two days by three respective teams of artists.

'The agents follow very simple rules, and although there is no centralized control structure dictating how individual agents should behave, local (and, to a certain degree, random) interactions between such agents lead to the emergence of "intelligent" global behavior, unknown to the individual agents.'

Each of the following teams was responsible for one of the three walls:

Co-Laboratory: Denise Driscoll, Lynda Schlosberg, Carol Mordecai-Myers, Michael Finnegan, Keith McLelland, Jeffrey Ellse and Alison Williams

NHIA BFA Alumni: Mary Graham, Debbie Kinson, Nate Twombly, Ian DeCelli, Nate Owens, Kyeong Kim

NHIA BFA Students: Emily Palmquist, Angela Bartlett, Christine Mateu, Tracey Hayes, Abby Ireland, Kiera McTigue, Timothy Loraditch, Brett Parenteau

nhia.edu
aib
angela's post
lynda's post

magazine

2012-02-05T19:37:00.004-05:00

november

2011-11-19T12:07:00.000-05:00

2011-10-22T16:19:00.000-04:00

october

2011-10-22T16:16:00.000-04:00

old secret work

2011-09-11T17:03:00.000-04:00

old secret work

2011-09-11T16:58:00.000-04:00

nine landscapes

2011-09-11T16:39:00.000-04:00

factory materials 1

2011-09-01T18:08:00.000-04:00

I bought a scanner at salvation army for seven dollars. One of the things I package at the factory comes in a box that has this sticker on the outside, which I assume means it has passed through Hong Kong on its way to us. I cut off and saved every one I had the chance to. I tend to save little pieces of paper I'm attracted to; I think it's important to act on impulses that tell me things are awesome.

graphemes

2011-07-23T20:32:00.001-04:00

Some little icons I forgot about. When I was starting to work on ideas for my video installation with Nanette, I prepared these figures (along the same lines as the proteins series) in conjunction with some of the different sounds that eventually went into the video.

desktop background

2011-07-17T19:07:00.000-04:00

information bricolage

2011-05-07T23:15:00.003-04:00

audio and video composed by me

video sampled from:
planet earth (2006) - shallow seas
the trials of life (1990) - hunting and escaping

audio sampled from:
fugazi - waiting room,
animal collective - college,
menomena - running

information bricolage

2011-05-07T21:10:00.003-04:00

These pieces will be on display as part of my degree show at the NH Institute of Art from May 22nd to July 19th.

poster

2011-04-04T00:14:00.000-04:00

Poster for Grinnell College's Animation Film Festival, inspired by a sequence from Nina Paley's animated film Sita Sings the Blues.

proginoskes

2011-03-21T19:41:00.000-04:00

killer kill

2011-03-12T21:02:00.000-05:00

video installation

2011-03-11T21:28:00.009-05:00

Collaboration with Nicolas Xavier. In installation, the video portion is projected over a six foot square painting of the image above.

process

2011-03-11T16:08:00.001-05:00

Collaboration with Nicolas Xavier.

works in progress

2011-02-22T12:01:00.000-05:00

sequence 01

2011-02-21T20:11:00.004-05:00

Studies for collaboration with Nicolas Xavier.

circulatory system

2011-02-16T09:23:00.001-05:00

collage

2011-01-29T13:53:00.003-05:00

contrasting diptych

2011-01-23T12:26:00.005-05:00

Lower image is a reference for the painting half of the diptych. Collaboration with Nicolas Xavier of bloodsells.

the loris

2010-12-30T04:04:00.000-05:00

Commissioned work depicting the loris.

old sound

2010-12-04T20:46:00.004-05:00

I'm going to be producing some new music over the next few months, so I'm posting some of the more finished tracks I've made over the last few years.

This is almost six years old now. It uses audio samples of Gene Wilder's voice from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory from 1971.

I made this one around a year later. My favorite part of this track is the silly ending with the switching between time signatures.

Collaboration with a fellow student at the time. He wrote the first melody and then I orchestrated the rest.

Pretty heavily sample-based, with pretty much a single chord/melody line. I like the disgusting synth sound and the evil modal harmony.

I obsess over chord progressions, especially secondary dominants. All I would play when I found a piano was this tune.

I can't get enough music with uneven time signatures.

Another little monster. The drums are kind of awkward.

I've had a version of this idly going for about two years but recently brought it to some kind of finish with the help of an instructor.