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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
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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
    Recorder gestures toward the ephemerality of information by recording audio into sand.
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    Recorder - speaker assembly
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    • 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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    • MollyeNet

    MollyeNet uses specialized hardware to implement a public access WiFi network onto art museum property. MollyeNet has exhibited successfully at MoMA NYC and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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      MollyeNet
      MollyeNet is a WiFi network that occupies space as an artwork in an art museum. At core, MollyeNet is about longing and visibility, not subverting cultural gatekeepers. But both are acceptable. MollyeNet has successfully exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the New York City Museum of Modern Art. Visitors attempting to access WiFi on their phones see this network alongside other WiFi networks in the museum.
    • MollyeNet Captive Portal
      MollyeNet Captive Portal
      A captive portal is the page you often see prompting you to agree to Terms and Conditions before using a guest WiFi network. The text and the WiFI network itself are the only visual evidence of the piece. The text reads: I brought my sculpture To the Museum of Modern Art I leaned it against the wall To see how it would feel To be “in” MoMA I promise to take it with me when I leave Welcome to MollyeNet! MollyeNet is a WiFi network occupying space as an artwork in the Museum of Modern Art. At heart, MollyeNet is about longing and visibility, not subverting cultural gatekeepers. But it feels good to do both. MollyeNet operates by imitating MoMA WiFi and thus cannot exist outside of MoMA. MollyeNet does not interfere with the operation of MoMA in any way, except to live in the designated space of approved art without approval. Read the following terms and conditions, then click I Agree to proceed. Enjoy MollyeNet.
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