installations / photos / sounds / videos
& recent collaborations
interactive installation / sound art
soundNest website
2013 - 2015 with "DIALOG +" & Justin Miller(GamaLama (Baltimore))
at Baltimore's Artscape
soundNest - ABC2 news, Baltimore
soundNest website
details :
SOUNDNEST was a wildly colorful large outdoor installation, in Baltimore, MD, approximately 60x30 feet. The installation was constructed on the Mt Royal median strip, at MICA, in the heart of Artscape. During the summer of 2013, Liz Swanson, ryanSmith, & Alzaruba (also known as DIALOG +) collaborated with artists to construct 11 ft. tall panels made from found materials: clothing, bed sheets, construction fencing, etc. These panels (with a shear white backing), were then assembled to create a tent-like structure, and intertwined with pre-existing trees.
Sound artists, Justin Miller, and ryanSmith, constructed dozens of handmade instruments for the public to play inside "soundNest". These instruments included: bells, gongs, drums, wind chimes, cymbals, and handmade kalimbas. During the three days of Artscape, over 20 experimental musicians played onstage, inside "Sound Nest", from new talent like Luke Fisher to local legend Neil Feather. Blurring the borderline between audience and performer, the musicians were to harmoniously perform with the cacophony of sounds made by the random, public participants.
interactive installation / sound art
2017 with Justin Miller (GamaLama (Baltimore))
featured at:
PEX Summer Festival (Darlington, MD), WickerMan (Artemas PA), Mushroom City (Baltimore MD), & Figment (Baltimore)
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interactive installation / sound art
2014 with Justin Miller (GamaLama (Baltimore))
[ also shown at 2014's : Transmodern - MD, Playa Del Fuego - DE, and Wickerman - PA, Festivals ]
details :
2 of the "builders of soundNest", Justin Miller & ryanSmith, were asked to install their instruments at Fields Fest 2014. The public was invited to walk through, or play upon a feast of handmade instruments. These instruments include: bells, gongs, drums, wind chimes, cymbals, and handmade kalimbas.
At Fields, Ryan & Justin brought a "stripped-down version of soundNest", which they titled "GamaLamaDingDong"
Fields Fest website
Baltimore's City Paper made a recording of "the Nest"
city paper [part 1]
More photos from the City Paper's documentation of GamaLamaDingDong at "Fields Fest"
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interactive video & installation
2008, Thesis Exhibition
installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 5:00)
interactive Flash portion:
details :
interactive Flash video projection
(controlled by a mouse)
looping colorful video "Surreality"
ambient music
coffee table
couch
other family room objects
interactive video & installation
2009, Thesis Exhibition
installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 2:50)
full-length video for installation:
details :
one projected digital video with sound
suspended transparencies on plexiglass
second projection connected to a surveillance camera
a chair for the audience to become a part of the installation
video & installation
2010 with Karla Cott
video: 7:00
details :
originally projected on a sailboat sail for Mobile Spaces
Lake Mendota, Madison, WI
by ryanSmith and Karla Cott
interactive video & installation
2008
installation at the Maryland Institute College of Art (sample video: 2:50)
details :
one projected digital video with sound
suspended transparencies on glass & plexiglass
picture frames
mixed media sculpture
melted speaker
paint
"If you were a black cloud in front of a rising sun, would you see the 
or the light coming through the cracks?"