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Most recently I assisted Hugo Solis with a large scale project that is on display in the Central Library in Mexico City. I helped him to design and fabricate autonomous wireless pianos that reacted to the proximity of the observer and made subtle changes in performance. One of these was on display in Guadalahara and four more are on display in the Biblioteca Central in Mexico City. Documentation for these projects are currently offline. When the documentation becomes available I will link to it here.

I Have 3 Pairs of Pants With My Brother I Share. from Eric Thompson on Vimeo.

"I Have 3 Pairs of Pants With My Brother I Share." Eric Thompson and Aubrey Birdwell

Exhibition at OGHE Ltd Seattle, WA 7/2009 - 8/2009

We are discontinuous beings in search of a simulation of continuity to subdue our fear of separation. The American home provides protection through encapsulation. In travel and as a form of rogue property we often carry with us a semblance of the familiar den. The box with a locked door full of comforts for us alone. We carry this capsule to contain our individual and separate existences even amidst so many others. Safety and freedom in equally moderate amounts. We reject and embrace that we are free-floating and disconnected from everything around us. We are exclusively what everything else is not. We are all discretely concrete and temporary, and it bothers the hell out of us, doesn't it?

In space and temporal media, these pieces attempt to re-stage our memories of what American life has been through our eyes. Through cultural quotation we attempt to pry open the locked box and articulate the immense void of American culture.

- Eric Thompson and Aubrey Birdwell

"Cleaning Out The Dead" 5 channel audio, custom fluorescents, reel-to-reel tape machine

2008 DXARTS BFA Exhibition @ The Lawrimore Project 6/12/2008 - 6/22/2008

Wizard Fingers Plays Nice With Zeus' Beard. from Eric Thompson on Vimeo.

Autonomous Robotic Drums and Bar Chimes tracking Live Dancers in a Cacophony of Mayhem.

"Wizard Fingers Plays Nice With Zeus' Beard"

Wizard Fingers from Eric Thompson on Vimeo.

The story of a young robotic instrument and his search for intelligence and friends of his own. Wizard Fingers has gone through many changes. The final synchronization with living dancers was probably the end of the experiment. Perhaps more can be learned...