Cortex Activities for Codex Activities
Cortex Activities for Codex Activities was created to shelve the Reanimation Library's Highland Park Branch book collection at Monte Vista Projects.
A group of artists and writers were asked to create works for the Reanimation Library's temporary Highland Park Branch in Los Angeles. I constructed bookshelves, a table, and benches inspired by books in the collection.
The Reanimation Library is a small, independent presence library open to the public in Brooklyn, NY. The library collects books for their compelling visual content and have, for some reason or another, fallen out of mainstream circulation. The books are always culled from thrift stores, stoop sales, and throw-away piles. The Library encourages the public to browse the collection, scan pages, and reanimate the images in their own creative works.
I also created a table for the library's computer and scanner, titled Input/Output Device, and a pair of benches titled Of Infinite Amounts of Random and Processes at Given Times.
Books Used:
- Biorhythms and Your Behavior
- Optics: The Technique of Definition
- Handbook of Microprocessors, Microcomputers, and Minicomputer
Gallery visitor checking out the library!
Library and book scanning station.
Library and book scanning station.
Gallery visitor checking out the library!
The Reanimation Library selects books for both their subject matter and also visual intrigue, so I created the book cases with some shelves that specifically foreground the book covers.
Infrared detail from "Optics: The Technique of Definition" used on sides of bookcases. The back bookcases features brainwave images from "Biorhythms and Your Behavior."
Drowsy text and brainwave pattern from "Biorhythms and Your Behavior."
The Reanimation Library selects books for both their subject matter and also visual intrigue, so I created the book cases with some shelves that specifically foreground the book covers.
Ultra violet figure from "Optics: The Technique of Definition" used on sides of bookcases.
Figure from "Optics: The Technique of Definition" used on sides of bookcases.
Figure from "Biorhythms and Your Behavior" used for backs of each shelf.
Figure from "Biorhythms and Your Behavior" used for backs of each shelf.
Input/Output Device workstation table with Of Infinite Amounts of Random bench.
Image from Handbook of Microprocessors, Microcomputers, and Minicomputers routed into the top of the Input/Output Device workstation table.
Detail from the "Excited" waveform in Biorhythms and Your Behavior.
Detail from the "Excited" waveform in Biorhythms and Your Behavior.
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