Feature Creep
Solo Exhibition at Esther Klein Gallery, July 2017
The term “feature creep” primarily refers to the ongoing expansion of features in products like computer software, usually making the software more complicated. Lawrence has adopted this terminology and describes it as the process of life creeping into a piece of work, similar to the experience of recognizing the features of a face in a cloud. By collaborating with a diverse range of musicians, artists, enthusiasts and scientists, Lawrence explores the phenomenon of pareidolic synestheseastic transfigurations, a process in which we are inclined to recognize significant forms in unfamiliar stimuli.
Visitors to the gallery will experience a variety of multimedia projects involving circuits, animatronics, and sound, including a “smart beehive” with live streaming data that Lawrence created in collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design student Wynn Geary. Other works in this exhibition include collaborations with Broderick Bauman, David Ryskalczyk, Phil Ryskalczyk, Troy Taylor, Samantha Witchen and Zhi Zhang.
Photograph above by Addison Geary
