Laura Nova

Limited Run is an exercise in interaction

Laura Nova — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:26:28 +0000

by Roger Catlin, Hartford Courant, ArtWeek Section, Thursday, May 20, 2010, p.18.

Spring is the time when many get back into running, artists among them. Hartford native Laura Nova has turned to running in a big way in recent projects, triggering a mechanism that sings a finisher’s name celestially at the end of a race at New York’s Riverside Park, or running up to four hours a day on a treadmill in “Runner’s High,” part of the Praying Project in New York in 2005.

And now it’s your turn. In “Limited Run,” opening today at Real Art Ways in Hartford, Nova had an indoor track built inside one of the medium-size rooms at the gallery. Visitors can walk or run around the 20-meter loop with banked corners that may be more enticing to skateboarders than distance runners. Make it around once, and a fire bell rings. To run a mile, you’ll have to go around 80 times (with 80 dings).

Don’t dog it; a camera will chronicle the track’s use—streamed live at www.limitedrunproject.com—as typical workout music plays (direct from “Jock Jams, Vol. 1”).

Even without runners, the black track in the white room resembles a pop-art installation; its stencil-style lane numbers further push a Jasper Johns connection. Nova, who lives in New York’s lower East Side and is an assistant professor in the creative art and technology program at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, N.J., will be on hand to give a couple of “walk-and-talks” on the track June 3 at noon and June 7 at 6 p.m. She’ll also speak after a matinee screening of the running classic “Chariots of Fire” and be there at a members’ opening June 8 at 6 p.m. –Roger Catlin

pff…pff… is thing on?

Laura Nova — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:28:20 +0000

test

this is only a test

testing one, two, three…

Limited Run

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:58:14 +0000

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010 from 6-8 PM at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. Inspired by the artist’s endurance training using the recreational paths and racecourses of New York City, Limited Run enacts an indoor track constructed within the confines of the gallery walls. Visitors are encouraged to run or walk around the looped spectacle. A fire bell rings at each completed 20-meter lap. During the first two weeks of June, Laura will organize racecourse activities with community groups as well as use the track for her own running regimen. Events will be broadcast on www.limitedrunproject.com through live streaming video.

Crescendo

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:27:41 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Media: RFID Technology, finish line, people running

www.thecrescendoproject.com

The Crescendo Project is an automated praise-singing machine that is triggered at the completion of a race when a runner crosses the finish line and it sings his/her name to the melody of Handel’s Hallelujah. My goal is to provide an enhanced race experience highlighting spirituality and running under the guise of art. This project orchestrates the visual spectacle of a race in a musical form, praising the runner as he/she crosses the finish line. 35 runners laced up their sneakers on September 26th to participate in the project as part of the 5th Annual Big Brother Big Sisters of New York City RBC Race in Riverside Park.

Laura Nova

Head in a Box

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:26:05 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 2’ x 2’ x 2’
Media: Wood, people

Sensory deprivation chamber.

Feet First

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:23:58 +0000

He Loves Me Not

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:22:05 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Dimensions: 29.5’ x 2’
Media: Wood, steel, light bulbs, Electronic components

A sign, a big one, reminiscent of the game in which the blinking lights determine whether the object of affection returns that affection or not.

Dash-Line

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:20:29 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Voice-mail recordings, finish line, people running

An audio installation created to benefit the charity Larger Than Life by raising awareness of children suffering from cancer. The DASH-Line brought the voices of the children who participate in Larger than Life to the Dor Chadash Annual 5K Run/Walk by broadcasting audio recordings of the childrens’ wishes at the race finish line. The project’s name, “DASH-Line” plays with the dual meaning of the word dash, which is an abbreviation for regards/greetings in Hebrew and synonym for race(n) in English.

Dramatic Pause

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:15:27 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Website, mp3, map, people

www.dramaticpauseproject.com

“Dramatic Pause” draws inspiration from soap operas to make the ordinary suspenseful by giving participants an audio tour of the 14th street commercial district, assigning soap operatic musical scores and snippets of dialogue to points of interest identified along a map. Participants use their own portable devices to download mp3 files and a map from this website to follow an interactive storyline in which the viewer becomes the subject of the drama. Sites include the Union Square Farmer’s Market, Metro Drug, Jason’s Jewelry, Good Stuff Diner, Artie’s Hardware, and Rags-A-Go-Go. This project was a collaboration with Traci Talasco and part of Art in Odd Places 2009, a festival exploring the odd, ordinary and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.

The Trip

Laura Nova — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:02:05 +0000

Year Completed: 2009
Media: Digital Image, audio recording

Documentation of stair diving performance.