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...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...
...over a glass-decked platform conceived by Stephen Antonakos, with giant candy-colored neon tubes flicking on and off in programmed patterns, lighting them from beneath and above. The experience told them exactly how an ant feels walking across a Coca-Cola sign. Then it was on to James Seawright's electronic cathedral, where their movements were recorded by an electronic brain that transmitted signals to each of twelve surrounding black Formica columns, causing them to emit soft, strange organlike notes, eerie wind effects and gentle light patterns...
...artist has written in pencil the word Sky, on another River, on a third Mountain. Four packing-case-sized and identical boxes by Robert Morris, painted white and spaced at equal intervals on the floor. A row of what appears to be eight truncated shoeboxes, the work of James Seawright, each containing a variant of the figure eight in sometimes flashing lights, while every now and then a taped voice croaks out, "Eight." A flight of wooden stairs covered in gold-colored carpet, entitled Euclid by Joe Goode. A creation called Die by Architect-turned-Sculptor Tony Smith, which...
Madcap Circuitry. James Seawright's spidery electronic sculptures could be Paul Klee's fidgety drawings turned into robots. New York's Modern Art and Whitney museums each snapped up one of the beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker...
Because of their photoelectric cells, Seawright's machines respond to one another and to the presence of people. When Searcher beams light from its circling radarlike dishes, Scanner's flailing arm picks up the beacon with its light sensors; then Captive, impelled by a motor, skids and twitches about on a mirrored platform. "The machines process information," says Seawright, 30, an Ole Miss grad who instructs at Manhattan's Electronic Music Center (run by Princeton and Columbia). "Their cells and sensors collect information on light and sound, and they behave accordingly. My aim is to produce...
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