September 7 to October 21, 2006

Opening on Thursday, September 7 at 8pm in conjunction with SWARM7

The installation consists of a doctor’s examination table with a conveyor belt containing detailed photographs of skin. A scanner scans the photos puncturing the paper whenever a freckle, scar or mole appears. These punctures are then fed through a mechanical vacuum system similar to a player piano employing 14 tuning forks transforming them into spatial sound.

“Marked” is a mechanism that continuously searches images taken off the body. The skin images have been pierced in areas that could possibly be seen as a flaw or as a life threatening mark. As these voids of imperfections are found within the image, the patterns are then transferred onto two contrasting forms within the space.”

Joseph Kohnke was born in Monterey, California in 1973 and now works and lives in Chicago, Illinois. He receive d his BFA with an emphasis in sculpture from San Jose State University in California and his MFA with an emphasis in art and technology from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois. He currently supervises the materials lab and teaches a two-part fundamentals course for the Architecture Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, while also actively producing and exhibiting art.