'Texas' is an Adjective is a collection of movies in collaboration with characters from the swampy bogs of her home in south central Texas. "Things really are bigger here," says the artist, "spiders the size of your hand, 300-pound feral hogs, water moccasins as big around as your leg." These digital videos show moments large and small: the flash flood that comes within feet of her back door, a bull giving a cow a spit bath, the seductive motion of an oil rig, a rattlesnake in mid-yawn. LaFayette's work in progress involves imaging with remote sensing systems such as ground penetrating radar, wireless video, and small scale, distributed motes.
Carol LaFayette is an artist from Atlanta. Her artwork has been exhibited worldwide in festivals, in galleries, and on television, and is included in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Microcinema International, and Printed Matter. She was an artist in residence at the Hungarian Multicultural Center in 2001 and collaborated on an interactive multimedia installation at SIGGRAPH 2002. Her 2003 award-winning video "Skateboarding in Sarajevo" screened at 10 international film festivals including Zebra Poetry on Film, Berlin, Filmstock, UK, and Moondance, Colorado. She teaches video and time based media at the Visualization Lab, Texas A&M University, a graduate program for digital art and computer science.
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