China Blue is interested in how our world is built from our sensations and perceptions and how this emerging umwelt provides not only a basis for exploring the inner world of the mind, but also how technological extensions of our senses, provide a way to transcend their limits. Her work enhances the audience’s perceptual world through her investigations and explorations into bioacoustics, ultra and infrasonic sampling devices, brain wave monitoring, and robotic sensory avatars.
“China Blue (is) a forerunner in the … contemporary sound art movement.” Edward Rubin, Sculpture magazine
“China Blue’s work… has returned to the subject matter of nature in an effort to find either new meaning or create new metaphors…” Jill Conner, New York Editor, Whitehot Magazine and contributor to Art in America and Sculpture
Awards
2015 Nominated the Artist-in-Residence for a 2 year appointment at the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute, at Rhode Island Hospital.
2013 US Representative at Tokyo Wondersite’s Experimental Art Fair
2012 Nominated Best Monographic Museum Show, Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics
2012 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in New Genres
2008 U.S. Representative at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy
Founder and Executive Director of The Engine Institute.
"Imagining Blue” is an interactive brainwave sculpture that uses the participant’s minds to dynamically control the light, the motion and the sounds of the sculpture.
This mesmerizing art work that gives the audience previously unexplored and intimate views of the workings of their own minds. It enables users to observe their own current brain in action. The EEG data sensor converts the waves into external changes of color and the patterning of the LED sculpture as well as to create music based on the sounds of neurons firing and breathing. ©China Blue
MindDraw enables people to create beautiful real-time brain based images. By accessing their mental states of relaxation, meditation, focus or just by thinking, the participants drive the shape and speed of installation imagery. In addition to the performance installation this work is also designed as a stand alone, wall mounted, user interactive work with a self-contained program. ©China Blue
Eiffel Tower project: Recording the Eiffel Tower subbasement. Click here to buy the CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/chinablue2
In 2009 China Blue & Dr. Seth Horowitz, a Brown University neuroscientist, recorded NASA’s Ames Vertical Gun both inside and outside the chamber with customized seismic, boundary (PZM) and ultrasonic microphones to capture the sonic footprint of a hypervelocity impact. The seismic microphones were placed both on the surrounding platform and against the central target. The boundary microphones were placed on the platform at 180 deg. from each other and the ultrasonic microphone was placed at the top of the chamber creating an array that would capture the full acoustic emission from multiple locations. The microphones were monitored live on separate channels and the recordings captured with state of the art computer software. Simultaneous binaural recordings on standard microphones were made to capture the ambient acoustics external to the chamber.
China Blue
BIO
China Blue’s biography includes her receiving two NASA/RI Space Grants and a Rhode Island Rhode State Council for the Arts Fellowship. An internationally exhibiting artist China Blue was the first person to record the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and NASA’s Vertical Gun, a gun that shoots projectiles at Mach-10. In 2013 she was the US Representative at Tokyo Wondersite’s Experimental Art Fair. Her exhibition “Firefly Projects” was nominated for the 2012 “Best Monographic Museum Exhibition, Nationally” by the International Association of Art Critics. She represented the US at OPEN XI, Venice, Italy an exhibition held in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale and at the Tokyo Experimental Art Festival. Reviews of her work have been published in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, artCritical and NY Arts to name a few. She has been interviewed by France 3 (TV), for the film “Com-mu-nity” produced by the Architecture Institute of America and was the featured artist for the 2006 annual meeting of the Acoustic Society of America. She has been an invited speaker at Harvard, Yale, MIT, Berkelee School of Music, Reed College and Brown University and an adjunct professor and Fellow at Brown University in the United States. She is the Founder and Executive Director of The Engine Institute.
