// jeremy couillard \\

Dip, Sparkle, Turn, Pull, Repeat, 38″x40″x72″, plexi and electronics on wooden plynth

Almost all the materials for this sculpture were purchased in Chinatown. I bought these gems from some magical stone shops on Walker and Center streets. When I buy them the lady there always tells me “Good luck!”

This is the board I put together to run the mechanisms. It’s an Atmega328 with Arduino bootloader. Then some relays to run the motors. If you’re curious about the code, here is it.

This is the bottom gem that flickers when the other gem is raised to its highest.

This thing was so hard to document. Hopefully this video makes it a little more clear what it is. It goes up, it goes down, it spins around, and then I programmed it to do a few little tricks every now and again.

Install shots from Columbia MFA thesis show:

I built a wooden projector with spinning wheels to project my animation.

Futuristic Waiting Room, 96″x48″, Acrylic, mirror-plexi, collage on panel, 2012

My Apocalypse Fantasy

10min, single channel video loop, 2012. Made with Cinema4d, sound with xtranormal robot and AudioMulch.

Best to watch this in Vimeo as I can’t do HD from my webpage right now.

This is a video that will be projected out of a sculpture for an upcoming show (details in the post below). It’s part of a bigger installation that I’m working on right now. Probably just go watch it in HD on vimeo. It won’t let me embed HD here. (click on the HD letters in the video)

Getting ready for this.

A Perfect Science, 2012, acrylic on panel, 48″x48″

I spend a lot of time in oncology clinic waiting rooms. I have this one fantasy that cancer is cured and the plants that they use to make chemotherapy drugs sprout out from the toxic liquids in an abandoned waiting room. This is a pacific yew tree growing out of the drug Taxol.

Movie Poster for the Secret Adventure of Franz Mesmer, 2012, acrylic on paper, 24″x32″

Here is a video I made for the awesome Rip CD (ripcd.bandcamp.com/)

The Secret Adventure of Franz Mesmer

Spinning Brick Flower Cube 32″x32″x32″ Acrylic and flowers on wood on a rotating plinth

For the nerdy: It’s a motor with spur gears on a 12″ rod between two pillow blocks. The motor is controlled by an arduino that tells it to run 10 seconds and not run 40 seconds.

Healing Bath With Fake Future Machine 48″x48″ acrylic on panel

Pyramid and Cell 26″x32″ Acrylic on paper

a few open studios pictures:

Me and my brother cut this album while he was visiting. Classical music and classical gaming put together. The band name is: I Plead the Fifth Dimension…it’s a quote from that movie with Chevy Chase…Nothing But Trouble.

TAXUS BREVIFOLA. New 3D video in this series.

Getting ready for open studios on the 20th. I have a lot of cleaning to do. I’m in room 304 on 632 W. 125th street…I’ll be there from 3-6.

Visual Piano Cube in Cellular Hallway, 48″x40″ acrylic and electrical components on and in panel, 2011

This is a painting with three knobs on a piano cube. When you turn the knobs the lights change color. I wanted to make a painting that a viewer could change.

Nerdnote: Here is the back. As you can see…quite a bird’s nest of wires. I used an Atmega 328 with Arduino bootloader to control 9  TIP120s..each resistor controlling 5 LEDs . The LEDs are super bright and use 12v of power. I had to get massive 3W resistors. The resistors get pretty hot and you can feel it on the front of the painting. I like that idea of a painting getting warm.

Deadly Lasers, 24″x32″ acrylic on paper.

I was watching a lot of airbrush tutorials on youtube when I made this.

This Is What I Thought the Internet Would Be Like.