Shed Research Institute

The Shed Research Institute is the multidisciplinary art, research, curatorial, and design studio of Jeff Cain. The SRI is committed to creating work that provokes public dialog around the natural, technological, and cultural forces that shape our material culture in the landscape. The SRI initiates individual projects, commissions and supports the work of others, and accepts commissions and design projects. Named and inspired by temporary structures that house adhoc initiatives and amateur exploration, the Shed Research Institute has many small outposts across California.

Members: Jeff Cain

Website:http://www.shedresearch.net/

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FAR Bazaar Project

XERODROME

Description: Xerodrome is 3-Channel Video installation that explores a landscape generated from digital glitch applied to digital photographs. The “Xerodrome”, taken from Reza Negarestani’s book Cyclonopedia, is an apocalyptic landscape of destruction and flatness. Throughout the 30 minute flyover, one can see landscapes of chaos and order, of natural materials and of digital noise.

Location: FA64F

Participating Artists: Chris O’Leary, Isaac Schankler (music)

Christopher O’Leary is an artist who works at the intersection of science, futurism and fantasy to create technologically experimental works of animation, photography and installation. His work borrows from an array of sources such as science fiction, comic books, popular film, and the hard sciences. Recent projects include a generative animation visualizing black holes, a series of hacked digital images of performances, and an apocalyptic animation made of thousands of photographs contemplating our fragile resources. He is currently a visiting researcher at the UCLA ArtSci Research Center working on his current project titled Cloud Chambers. He is a founding member of the artist collective called Speculative which has exhibited and programmed events around Los Angeles. These include a series of events at Machine Project bringing artists and scientists together to discuss Dark Matter, and an exhibition at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions about speculative fiction and art. Christopher has shown his work in Seattle, Los Angeles, Belgrade, Istanbul, Rome, and Torun, Poland. Christopher received his MFA from UCLA and his BFA and BA from the University of Washington. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Jeff Cain is an artist, designer, and curator whose studio, the Shed Research Institute, explores site-specific and interdisciplinary research projects. Cain is full-time faculty at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts. His work has been featured in the Getty Museum’s California Video, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and many other southern California art spaces, and internationally in the Busan and Havana Biannuals, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was the Exhibition Designer and Adjunct Media Curator for University of California/Riverside ARTSblock, where he organized Matt Lipps: Horizons; Render: New Construction in Video Art; and Asher Hartman: Halfway to Vegas. Cain also organized Utopia! at the LA County Fair, which was the first photo exhibition curated through online crowd sourcing, and the radio programming for his project RHZ Radio, which was a finalist for the Prix Ars Electonica in digital communities.