Gregg Perkins

Created collaboratively as part of OK! Transmit

OK! TRANSMIT is a diverse art collective and open community based in South St. Petersburg, FL exploring new media art and technology. Founded in July 2018, OK! Transmit creates a place and space for local Tampa Bay and South St. Petersburg artists to gather and share their practice, thoughts, and experiences in art and technology. This group is currently composed of sound artist, filmmaker, and University of Tampa professor Gregg Perkins; artist, technologist, and entrepreneur Mikhail Mansion; sound artist and software engineer James Curran; and illustrator, entrepreneurship advocate, and higher-ed professional Olivia Mansion. The artwork Overflow is a kinetic and generative sound sculpture driven by real-time traffic cameras that monitor the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Footage of traffic flow is interpreted by custom software and transformed into a living soundscape – a stringed instrument that maintains an indexical reference to the bridge. String tension is robotically attenuated as dynamically changing traffic patterns create an indefinite suspension of time and space. Like the bridge itself, the evolving sonic arrangement suggests a living connection between people and places.