Heather Sparks

		projects
		Fluffblonde - detail	Blow up of 3cm x 1cm scans of hair, enlarged to 3’ x 300’. Digitally printed on transparent vellum and laminated. Approximate floor dimensions 15’ h x 20’w x 12’w
		Ream - detail	Scanned skin, blown up, and digitally printed on transparent vellum. 8 1/2 “ x 200’.
		Disport - Self-generated White Noise Machine	Scanned, skin, pixilated, digitally printed on transparent vellum, and laminated. Printed “skin” moved through a machine, which scanned the printed material and interpreted each pixel color as a separate sound. Plexiglas case surrounding scanners, motors, transformers, synthesizer and speakers.
		Fuzzyland - The Good guys, The Gap, and You are Here	Guerilla performances utilizing in store video screens in various commercial venues. (The Gap and the Good guys are shown on this slide). This video was also shown as filler, and a kind of night sky locator map between performances and video shown for “You are Here”, an anniversary performance and video show for Southern Exposure at SF Moma.
		Cosmogenic - Self Generated Universe	Scanned skin and hair transformed into cosmos in Photoshop. 15 cibacrome prints of various sizes ranging from 20” x 30” to 90” x 60”. I created a screen saver from these images, which mimicked the cosmos screen saver, which comes standard on apple computers. I am currently using these images to create a short video called “the Good the Bad and the Ugly”, a space spaghetti western.
		Playstation – Self- Generated, Static Video Game Props	Skin, hair, and individual skin pixels, blown up and printed on vellum, and laminated. Ten 30’ x 3’ prints. Folded construction.
		Tom’s Twister - Self- Generated Centrifuge	Scanned skin and hair, printed in vellum, encased in laminate. 5’h x 3’w.
		Clover Merkin - video still	3hr video wallpaper, intended to function like a video fireplace or fishbowl, in which a woman shot from the waist down wears a merkin (pubic wig) made from clover.
		It Colors Your Life	A cultural study of England and California. 200 drawings based on photographs and video of people drinking and smoking and engaged in related activities. Coloring book to be published by Immprint in 2011.
		Turner Prize (2001 and 2002)	Counterfeit Invitations. Edition of 50. Ongoing project. I solicited friends and acquaintances to send me their invitations, which have ranged from coveted invitations to art world and entertainment parties to family events. Collectively the invitations become a kind of abstracted portrait of the participants.
		FARM - Fiberglass Animal Resource Management	Life size fiberglass horses dressed in “cyber suits” made by a company called Sleazy Sleepware for Horses. Collaborative project. The horses were found on a road trip to Sparks Nevada, and were taken on a museum tour of Berkeley and San Francisco through the umbrella organization FARM.
		The Good the Bad and the Ugly - video stills	Work in progress. Screen saver with soundtrack from the spaghetti western film, “the Good the Bad and the Ugly”. Self created universe, made from manipulating images of my hair and skin within photoshop. Inspired by, and intended to mimic the “cosmos” screensaver which comes standard on Apple computers.
		Within My Nature - work in progress	Stills made from models for new sculpture. Self-generated utopias generated from models made from digital prints of hair and skin scans. Currently used as sets for human kaleidoscope video.
		Within My Nature - work in progress	Self-generated utopias generated from models made from digital prints of hair and skin scans. Currently used as sets for human kaleidoscope video.