The Dithering, Business As Usual, I

The Dithering is a mediation on climate apathy presenting excerpts from the inaugural IPCC Climate Assessment within the context of an emulated Macintosh II desktop.

The first IPCC Climate Report was published in 1990. It contained many climate predictions that remain accurate, and yet in the 35 years since its publication there has been a tragically inadequate response to the ongoing climate crisis, which author Kim Stanley Robinson described as the “decades of dithering” in the speculative sci-fi novel 2312. This project aims to explore this first IPCC document and related climate science of the 1990s within the context of an obsolete desktop operating system from the same time period as a useful framing of the techno-cultural moment in which climate predictions were largely ignored.

Dithering also has a specific meaning within computer graphics as an algorithm for reducing color depth of an image while still preserving legibility. Relevant to this project is the well known Atkinson dithering algorithm developed by Apple to produce acceptable 1-bit images on its black and white computer systems of the 1980s. The Dithering offers a double meaning, the technical sense in which scientific images must be reduced in color depth to be legible, and the ethical sense in which inaction and squabbling by government, industry and society has produced irreparable harm to the Earth system.

The Dithering, Assemblage #4. Natural stone, rubber, foam, plaster, computer, peripherals, custom software.

RE/SOURCED, Group show at SVA Flatiron Gallery

Found Rock 5, WYSIWYG, (Installation view)

A group exhibition of sculpture, photography and mixed media artwork by four alumni of SVA’s Artist Residency programs, curated by program coordinator Rachel Gisela Cohen. “RE/SOURCED” features artworks by Sandra Erbacher, Dev Harlan, Nancy Krakaur and Teri Gandy-Richardson. Exhibition 06/2022 at the SVA Flatiron Gallery, NY.

Attempted E-Waste Gold Recovery and References

The video “Attempted E-Waste Gold Recovery and References” is documentation of literally that. While researching issues around e-waste recycling I discovered Youtube videos showing how to chemically isolate gold from scrap electronics. I began dissembling old computers or electronics I found in the building trash and saving anything metallic. While an artist in residence at JTHAR, I attempted to chemically extract gold from the e-waste using household chemical products. The final sample, of a small bead of melted Borox laced with an orange metallic substance, is shown with stop motion photography. The final results are not conclusive. The metal content, less than a gram, is likely gold but has not been tested.

Five Body Problems

In the digital short film series Five Body Problems, I use photogrammetry and 3D animation to explore themes of landscape, technology and anthropogenic change.

“Pooltime!” public art pavilion and sculpture in Flushing Meadows Corona Park


POOLTIME is a public artwork by artists Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and Dev Harlan. In conjunction with NYC Parks, the pavilion has been installed at the north end of Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and will be exhibited until summer 2020. POOLTIME is a public pavilion and series of community programming centered around the rich history of the Park as a site for the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs. POOLTIME activates an underused public space and aims to discuss the World’s Fair structures and their architectural lives and meaning post-exhibition.

More Information here:
http://www.cherdevalonius.com/pooltime/

“Parmenides I” at SUNY Oswego sculpture program

“Parmenides II” was selected for SUNY Oswego’s rotating public art program. The 8′ diameter aluminum sculpture has previously been exhibited indoors with video projection. Outdoors it lives comfortably in its naked object hood. The sculpture will be installed on campus for three years.

Wonder Valley Iron Age Slab I

The sculpture is a surface casting of exposed rock near the Iron Age mine site in Wonder Valley. Video projection mapping uses tones and textures from photogrammetry scans of this and other geological work.

“After Images” at Northern-Southern Gallery

“After Images” is a two-person show with myself and painter Laura Lit, curated by Phillip Niemeyer. The work is on view from January 20th – March 15th, 2018 at Northern-Southern Gallery, Austin, TX.