Spring 2017 Artist-in-Residence Kello Goeller

January 03, 2017

Kello's Bio:

Kello is an artist working in Portland, The Universe. They seek portals each day so you don't have to, or so that you will soon. Kello is a (sometimes unwilling) recipient of relentless messages from mothership re: translate tangible Starship Earth, which they follow through on till they're tired and then relax by covering their surroundings in escapist draperies. 

You may glimpse them 'round the studio, on the danse floor, or lurking in an underground lair, pressing sounds as future songstrix Leyla Daze. 

Open School North Residency Project:
we/you/i are infinitely unique together (a fractal danse machine)

Kello will participate this fall in an artist residency at Open School North, part of a long-term partnership with Open Signal staff that integrates media arts with the students' curriculum. During Kello's residency, students will learn the basics of fractals, the concept of infinity and how these ideas connect the beauty of the natural world with math. 

After learning that their bodies are fractal-line in structure, that there is a vast landscape of self-similarity inside, the kids will shoot video testimonials with the prompt: what makes you infinite?

Kello will edit these videos and work with the kids using the live VJ software VDMX to create a projection-mapped video performance, created and controlled by OSN students. In connection with electronics nonprofit Free Geek, they'll decorate repurposed mice and gaming controllers for use in their performance. Together they'll prepare a "fractal danse machine"  which combines live video with fractal animation and music. 

Their installation will debut during a public event on April 13, 2017 where their video will be projected onto a handmade geometric screen, and students will all perform as VJs. Using the mice and controllers, they'll trigger their testimonials and alter the video effects live. 

See Kello's past work on their website.

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