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About the Project The Scottsdale Public Art program is proud to bring Hindsight is 20/20, an installation by R. Luke DuBois to the Scottsdale Waterfront at Southbridge January 7th through March 8th. This outdoor installation will be on view, free to the public, along the Arizona canal bank walkway between the Marshall Way Bridge and Scottsdale Road. Hindsight is Always 20/20 examines the history of the Presidential State of the Union Address through the metaphor of vision. Artist R. Luke DuBois was inspired to create the artwork after spending an extended period of time studying the past 43 State of the Union Addresses from George Washington to George W. Bush.
DuBois compiled the most frequently used words and phrases from each speech and then created a light box for each president modeled after the classic Snellen eye chart (the kind used to check vision by eye doctors). Instead of the typical letters present in an eye chart, DuBois uses words from the speeches, presented in order of most frequent word (top line) to least frequent (bottom line). The result is an engaging snapshot of each president and his times, reflecting events of the day and the lexicon and rhetoric unique to each president. The light boxes function as actual eye charts. Note the numbers on the sides of the chart. Stand 20 feet away if you can read the words on the 20/20 line then you may have perfect vision. Take the time to meander through the installation to learn something about our collective political history through the lens of the artist's creative mind. About the Artist R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and was the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, a duo with vocalist Lesley Flanigan that explores the modality of the human voice, and in Fair Use, a trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski, that looks at our accelerating culture through elecronic performance and remixing of cinema. DuBois holds both a bachelor’s and a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University. Currently, Dubois is a professor at Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. For more information visit: www.bitforms.com
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