TONIGHT + FRIDAY // 3rd Ward Instructor Phillip Stearns' Multiple Exhibitions

Entity I, from "Subliminal Machines"It's safe to say Phillip Stearns--electronics artist and our own renewable power sources teacher extraordinaire--is on something of a roll. Stearns has an exhibition opening tonight, Nov. 3rd followed by an entirely different one tomorrow. 

Tonight's installation "Subliminal Machines" opens over at Rabbithole in DUMBO. It takes a look at circuits as live organisms via an interactive light and sound installation, digital imagery created by short-circuiting a camera and audio-visual compositions.

As part of his artist statement, Stearns claims "By making electronics physical, I invert the paradigm of miniaturization which constantly seeks to embed ever powerful computational devices in increasingly smaller spaces, choosing to explode the physical attributes of the circuits to give them a bodily presence." He'll be giving a talk about the installation November 18, 7-9 p.m. The show will be up until November 28. 

One of Stearns's pieces from "Algorithmic Unconscious"

If that gets you charged up, check out Stearns' work in Friday, Nov. 4th's "Algorithmic Unconscious," a collaborative project debuting at Williamsburg's Devotion Gallery. The show studies the overlap of noise in electronic machines, random fluctuations of sound, the interactions of humans and machines and how messing with a system's algorithms can create dischord. In other words, a fine example of Glitch art. This one's also open until November 28. 

We obviously love to support our own, but Stearns' new work looks (and we're sure, we'll sound) amazing, so we hope to see you out there too.

--Layla Schlack.