Donor Plaque is done.

Thanks to everyone who donated to the project. I am making the plaque this week and will be posting pics soon. I am very grateful to everyone who contributed. Thank You!

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) is a sculpture that perptually places itself for sale on eBay.com. I have mentioned it a couple of times on blog and the lovely Jen Graves of the Seattle Stranger has made a post about it. Well it is currently in an exhibtion at the Sol Koffler gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design.
You can see the current eBay Auction here: http://atooltodeceiveandslaughter.caleblarsen.com

1977 Mopeds

Right now I am up to by eyeballs in writing my thesis, preparing work for my thesis exhibition in May, applying for jobs and residencies (I am attending the CAA conference this week), I just finished teaching a class at RISD, doing a bit of contract work on the side.

The class I was teaching called, "Table Fights", was in the Furniture department at RISD. I taught with two fine folks, Anne Evelyn and Shaun Bullens. In the class students built tables that fought each other in a public tournament style event. (Yep, they fought each other.) They were weaponized, mechanized, remote control tables. It sounds a bit silly, but it was a wonderful opportunity for students to learn new technologies, building techniques, and other skills in a very fun and playful environment. None of the usual "Here is a new technology, learn it and make important art with it." Instead students were introduced to technologies (electronics, motors, mechanics, physical computing, and programming) and got a chance to play with it and have fun and learn at the same time!

For those who don't know I have been involved in a sort of Moped (the small motorized things with pedals...like scooter, but different) subculture for a long time: the Moped Army. Additionally I design, program, fix, trick-out, and do some of the marketing for the the online store for 1977 Mopeds. It is probably the best place of Puch, Tomos, Sachs and Minarelli mopeds..at least it is my favorite place. When my friend Dan Kastner started it, he and I lived in the back of the store for several months. If you want to know more, check them out.

Fiction Precedes Fact

Wikipedia has closed the loop in fictional information generation. In a recent German news story a (long and complicated) name was changed in Wikipedia. When the printed press covered the story, the modified name from Wikipedia was used. When the Wikipedia story was flagged as lacking a citation, one of the print sources was used as a citation, closing the loop.

See it on slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays World.
I am going to be in Michigan for a while...hopefully working on thesis readings and migrating my site to a better platform.

New Work, Fall 2008

Here is an installation of some new work

PATCH DYNAMICS: Six new invasions to the field at Lawrimore Project

Opening December 11th I will be in a show titled PATCH DYNAMICS: Six new invasions to the field at Lawrimore Project in Seattle, Wa.
Lawrimore Project has been one of, if not my favorite gallery in Seattle. I am honored and delighted to be a part of this exhibition. I will be going out for the opening (6-9pm Dec 11). Swing by and say 'Hi.'

The show is co-curated by Scott Lawrimore and Yoko Ott. It consists of 6 Seattle artists: Justin Beckman, Matt Browning, Heide Hinrichs, Caleb Larsen, Vesna Pavlovic, Mike Simi.

Jen Graves at the Stranger posted a nice blurb on the Slog: The Stranger Blog: "Work of Art with the Sound of its Own Selling". She talks abit about a piece I have not 100% buttoned up, but it is nice that she got excited about it.

The Interval Separating Documentation

The show closed in Philly over the weekend.  I now have some documentation.

A Video Game Playing Itself

Finally posting some images of "A Video Game Playing Itself" from last year.

Dr No Words

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In this video I have edited out all of the dialogue segments from the 1962 James Bond movie Dr No.

65min

Spring 2008 Work

This is a few things that I did in the Spring of 2008.

Three Remote Controlled cars set on an inclined plane. They try in vain to climb to the top (only to be met by hitting a wall) but get stuck in the middle and their tires spin fruitlessly. As their batteries wear down,their tires stop spinning and ultimately gravity carries them back to the bottom.

I attempted to contain the small explosion of a model rocket engine in an acrylic cube. The force exploded the cubes and the result is displayed.

The first iteration of Whose Life is it Anyway? A small LCD display listing my fabricated online life.

Monument (in Aberdeen Scotland)

Photos from the Monument installation in Aberdeen Scotland

The Interval Separating at Ester M Klein

The gallery was not fully cleaned up when I was installing the show in Philly so I was not able to get pre-show documentation, but a friendly person on flickr took some quick pics.
[note: The "fence" on the floor in the photos of the Monument piece is not part of the work. The gallery initially put that there for "safety" reasons without consulting me. We spoke and it has since been removed.]

Lapse of Time

Hi Folks, I am in a show at the new Chace Center at RISD. It is a beautiful new gallery and certainly worth a look if you are around. This show should be really nice. I have a new video in it.

Lapse of Time
Curated by Elizabeth Skadden
Openning Reception this Thursday October 9th 6-8pm
Gelman Gallery at Chace Center
20 Main St. 02903

“Life without editing, it seems, is just not that interesting.”–Bill Viola

Time in our lives flows unchecked. Art uses our memory and five senses to distill life down to the essentials. Memory within our lives condenses time for our consciousness. What we don’t remember is thrown away. What we do remember becomes all the more important. Within art, time lapse decides for the artist what they choose to show. The easiest sort of time-lapse to see is that associated with video or film. But other art methods can show a span of time as well through slow building processes and the display of a process of time. Lapse of Time includes work from several different artists in a wide range of departments. Through slow processes and broad temporal concepts, these artists collapse time, fold it over itself, and re-create new timelines that result in the following art pieces.

Work by these artists:
Alexander Field, Alison Roberts , Ted Yoon, Caleb Larsen, Emma Hogarth, Steve Silber, Kelley Goff, Nora Rabins, Evan Chamberlain, Noel O'Connell, Peter Wilson, Korakrit Arunanondcha, Johnny Adimando, Cooper Holoweski, Annabeth Marks, Dionne Yang