WATERFALL SCULPTURE
Dimensions – H 6’, W 1’2”, D 10”
Materials - 17 “ monitors, media player, wood frame
Description - TIME: 1 minute endless loop VIDEO: 2011
Recorded at Svartifloss in Iceland. Altmann’s partner, Andreas Uthoff builds the installations which are purposefully made from recycled materials. Using old monitors discarded by tv stations, Altmann infuses them with timeless life by adding imagery that is in itself timeless like beaches and waterfalls. The videos are meant to be meditative. Their calming effect countermands the stresses of our ever evolving and demanding technological lives. AUDIO: none.
Price –$4800. Each
WALKING SEASONS
Dimensions – H 4’4” x W 4’4” Stack
Materials - 7” monitors, media players, wood frame
Description – TIME: 12:15 VIDEO: 2010 to Present Shot at historical Brother’s Rock in Bedford, MA. The camera is placed at the same spot throughout the years and seasons. The Concord River is seen in the background with the artist
and her dog in the foreground. Part of the intention is to be playful with showing the same view but at different times of day or year so that the viewer is constantly looking at the similarities and differences.
Price – $4000. work in progress
BLACK ICE
Dimensions – H 3’2”, W 9’5”
Materials - 6 channel video
Description TIME: 15:30 VIDEO: 2016
Shot on the Concord River, MA USA. The camera precariously travels over the frozen river which turns to black ice. Faces emerge softly in the depth of the shifting surface. Like lost memories or ghosts trapped deep in the recesses of the ice and of the mind. AUDIO: Sound of Ice cracking.
Price – $15,000. includes monitors
Link to Video - https://vimeo.com/128161213
TEMPLE ROCK
Dimensions – H 3’6”, W 6’
Materials - four channel video
Description - TIME: 30:00 VIDEO: 2013 to 2016
Shot at historical Brother’s Rock in Bedford, MA. The camera is placed at the same spot throughout the years and seasons. The Concord River is seen in the background with the artist and her dog in the foreground. Part of the intention is to be playful with showing the same view but in different times so that the viewers is constantly looking at the differences and similarities. AUDIO: Ambient sound of birds and planes in background.
Price – $8,000. includes monitors
Link to Video - https://vimeo.com/97928678
CRYSTAL LAKE
Dimensions – 65” monitor
Description – TIME: 4:15 VIDEO: 2015
Shot at Crystal Lake in Cape Cod, MA. Human like projectiles dissolve in motion in this beautiful and mesmerizing world. The ghostly immersions are graceful amid the golden bubbles in the undulating landscape. AUDIO: Splashing water
Price – $600. USB stick series of 10/ 3 already sold
Link to video - https://vimeo.com/138553994
WATERFALL and FISH SCULPTURES Small
Dimensions – H 15” W 3.5” D 3.5”
Materials - 3.5” LCD monitors, oak wood, Raspberry Pi
Description – TIME: 1 minute endless loop VIDEO: 2015, 2011, 2010
We have so far three different sculptures. One has footage from Svartifloss in Iceland, another of sardines in Monterey Bay and the third is of Pilgrim Pond. Altmann’s partner Andreas Uthoff builds these small sculptures from monitors originally used in cars for back up cameras etc. One can see the evolution of the original CRT sculptures to these smaller flat screen versions. TIME: endless loop AUDIO: none
Price- $1500. each
PILGRIM POND MIRROR
Dimensions – H 20”, W 28”
Materials – monitor with built in Media Player Description – TIME: 29:00 endless loop VIDEO: 2013
Recorded on Cape Cod, Ma. The camera glimpses beneath the glittering surface to the magical world below. The light and reflections plays tricks on your perception. The kaleidoscopic screen magnifies this hallucinatory perception especially with it’s highly saturated colors and vivid imagery. AUDIO: Ambient Sound.
Price – $3000. mirror, monitor and frame included Link to Video - https://vimeo.com/84823461
WALKING ON ICE
Dimensions – 32” monitor
Description – TIME: 9:30 endless loop VIDEO: 2014
Shot on the Concord River, MA. I love to walk, as do so many people, and much of my current work aestheticizes this simple act. Walking is about movement as well as the sights that go by. I like traveling at a pace slow enough for my thoughts to breathe so that walking becomes a means of traversing the landscape of my mind. AUDIO: Cracking river ice.
Price – $600. USB stick series of 10/ 3 already sold
Link to Video - https://vimeo.com/126063650
DRAKE’S ISLAND
Dimensions - 32” monitor
Description – TIME: 1:00 endless loop VIDEO: 2010 ShotonDrake’sIslandinMaine. KidsandArtistjumpingovertidepoolsonthe beach. There is a dreamy quality to this footage that has a sense of playful innocence. As seen in 20th Century Fox ‘Unfinished Business’ AUDIO: Ambient sound Price – $500. USB stick
Link to Video - https://vimeo.com/91869845