About Mollye

Baltimore City
Mollye Bendell is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in electronic and digital media.  She has created radio sculptures as a resident of Wave Farm, and developed augmented and virtual reality projects as a resident of Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and the Tides Institute and Museum of Art. She is also a founding member of media arts collective strikeWare, which creates experiences grounded in our collective history, often using new technologies to emphasize the nowness of that… more

Almost Heaven/Repetition Compulsion

Single wedding dress, threads removed. Pattern pieces organized from smallest to largest. Fabric suspended by the original threads. Dress purchased used for $32.
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New Desk

Desk found on street, completely and carefully dismantled, cut into rods. No fasteners used.
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Things Were Going Fine Before

2 tubes of lipstick, 11 hours, over 6700 kisses.
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Edges

Pen and ink, 3x5".
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Blue Mess

100 ceramic objects dipped in latex paint. Viewers were invited to move, remove, destroy or otherwise interact with the objects.
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Subtle Threats

Suspended candy wrapper swarm
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Recorder

Recorder gestures toward the ephemerality of information by recording sound into sand. Similar to a record player, the machine has a turntable and a needle. However, record players work by interpreting sound waves - users hear audio based on the vibration of the needle in the grooves of a record. Recorder inverts this functionality by linking the needle to a speaker resonator. A very shallow sandbox acts as a turntable as the resonator wobbles the needle, recording sound waves into the sand. 
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    Talking into the mic vibrates the needle of this homemade record player, drawing sound waves into the sand.
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    Recorder gestures toward the ephemerality of information by recording audio into sand.
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    Recorder - speaker assembly