Andrew Moore (American, b. 1957)
Andrew Moore is an American photographer known for his urban landscapes. Moore grew up in Connecticut and became interested in photography during childhood. His parents supported his interest, building him an attic darkroom and exposing him to the top photography of the time. After graduating from Princeton, Moore jumped into urban photography in cities like New Orleans, New York City, and Buffalo. He wrote about his work: “My photographic interests are stimulated by the busy intersections of history, particularly those locations where multiple tangents of time overlap and tangle.”
His later international work in Cuba and Russia captured architectural development, urban decay, and everyday city life. Imagination Station works to captures urban decay and dilapidation in the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Michael Roy Barker (American, b. 1976)
Michael Roy Barker is an American audio-visual artist and sound artist who resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He uses a variety of electronics, homemade instruments, vocals, and processed audio from found video to create his sound art. Barker wrote that when he first saw Moore’s Imagination Station, “the immense layers of decay that exist in Detroit by evidence of this photograph was awe-inspiring.” He created layers in his own piece to mimic these. Barker literally incorporated the photograph into his sound by converting the image and digital data of the photograph into audio. He further described the process: “This audio was then manipulated and processed through software and the synthesizer to create the sound that you hear. I also used hydrophone field recordings, electromagnetic field recordings via an Elektrosluch, an Axidraw plotter, and a Eurorack synthesizer…” Overall, Barker’s piece speaks to the layered decay that draws the eye in Moore’s photograph.