Triple Canopy
Triple Canopy, an online magazine and sometimes in-the-real-world space, is run by an energetic and skillful coterie of editors. Over the last few years, I've worked with them on several articles.
In 2008, I made a portfolio of Google-sourced images for Street View: A Selection.
The next year, I documented the six months of work at Eyebeam which went towards my Virtual Bowery project.
The next summer, during a residency at Teachers College, I worked on Ashley, a computer chorus reminiscent of Robert Ashley's operas. Triple Canopy put up a podcast of Ashley speaking, as well as an excerpt from Seth Kelly's audio show, which also includes Ashley at work.
For Triple Canopy's photo issue, I contributed Tahoe Passage. “There is no end of wholesome medicine in such an experience.” The text comes from Mark Twain's Roughing It, also a source for my CLUI/Wendover Residency project.
Tahoe Passage turned into an approx. 53' by 17" print (split into about six sheets of paper) at 80WSE Gallery: a try to make a paper & ink object from something previously online.
80WSE's first invitational exhibition
Opening reception November 29, 6-8pm
November 29 - December 22, 2011
80 Washington Square East between West 4th St. and Washington Pl.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am-6pm
Dan Torop's "Tahoe Passage" (2011), is based on Chapters 22 and 23 of Mark Twain's Roughing It, which describes a journey to a mountain lake and ensuing adventures by boat. Originally commissioned for Triple Canopy magazine, Tahoe Passage intersperses excerpts of Twain's text with photographs made by Torop. Rather than working in the story's Sierra Nevada setting, Torop uses ringers such as New Jersey's highest lake, a pond in rural Connecticut, Brooklyn's coast, and other generally northeastern locales. A cutout of the head of Alexander the Great takes the place of Twain's companion. To approach its original online presentation, the project is realized at 80WSE as a series of horizontal scrolls.
"Tahoe Passage" was first published by Triple Canopy (Issue 12: Black Box, April 15, 2011), with support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston.
In the Summer of 2011 I wrote an Annotation, From Blur to Bourriaud, on Dana Hoey's Dictionary of Received Ideas on Photography.