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I build sunrises out of technology and living creatures from dead materials. Preserved bees on motors, paint on glass, bone, wax, wood, salvage — these are the substance. Recordings, filters, and mixes are the time. The work is installation: room scale, sound and projected light, built to stand inside.
I don’t commit to one medium. I commit to a way of working. The place sets the problem, and the problem determines the material. Everything is sampled — objects, sounds, images, sources treated separately and recombined. I don’t hide the cables, cameras, and motors. The illusion and the machine are visible at the same time. Knowing it’s fake has never stopped me wanting to believe it.
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BIO
Margaret Noble builds installations from salvaged materials, sound, and projected light. Recent solo projects include Drift, made during her residency at the Timken Museum of Art, and Dark Loops at the MSU Museum. Her sound sculpture Clamor Machine was created for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in New York, and earlier residencies include the Museum of Applied and Contemporary Art, Vienna. Her public art has been commissioned by the San Diego International Airport and BART in Berkeley, and her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the City of San Diego’s civic art collection. Noble holds an MFA in Sound Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego.
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EMAIL: margaret@margaretnoble.com
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