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Friction Sticky Rough, 2002
Three-channel video installation with sound (excerpt above)
Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist

In Friction Sticky Rough, Szymanski has engineered tactile particle-to-object interactions (friction, stickiness, and roughness) to create images that can be interpreted as visual analogues of the sound. The sound component of the work involves musical structures that continuously change, activating the dynamic behavior of the sound particles’ physical reactions. To create the work’s visual component, the artist animated a fluid simulation of the sound. Each of the three images involves the same simulation, but viewed from different perspectives, allowing us to experience sound rendered as something visual and even palpable.