about geoffrey
Geoffrey Hicks is a Tulsa, Oklahoma based visual artist. His work ranges from traditional photography and film to technology driven interactive installations. In 2010 he created an installation where a large scale hanging sculpture of 151 incandescent light bulbs pulsed and reacted to the heart rates of dancers performing underneath. His most ambitious project to date, "The Photographer", was shown as part of Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalitions’ ART365 show in March 2011. For ART365, Hicks has re-purposed an 800 pound industrial robotic arm, replacing it's gripper with a professional digital camera and writing software to allow the arm to photograph individuals who are in its vicinity.
Many of Hicks' future projects will involve
collaboration with professional dancers and performers. He is working
with the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa to film a short original
ballet performance inside of the construction site of a new Visual Arts
Center they are constructing later this year. Filmed over the duration of
the construction, from bare site to finished building, the ballet
performance will follow a narrative of change and transformation while
comparing and contrasting the human form with that of the structure of
architecture.