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<\/a>Jason Shin and business partner Patrick Charles both transitioned out of the Corps in 2009, went to business school, and then collaborated on a new venture \u2014 in the arts.<\/p>\n
Wonderspaces is the result, a pop-up installation of artworks that invite audience participation, for adults and children. Shin and Charles are launching Wonderspaces at Mission Valley\u2019s new Civita Park on June 2 and it will run through July 30. The show will then travel to cities across the country.<\/p>\n
The 16 family-friendly artworks exhibited in Wonderspaces represent a broad spectrum of media. There is an exotic entrance portal. An installation of colorful nylon chords challenge perception as people stand among them. There will even be two films for viewing with Oculus Rift virtual reality systems, a favorite with adolescents \u2013 and plenty of adults.<\/p>\n
Shin and Charles\u2019 intent is to deliver great arts experiences to families and friends in an accessible and affordable venue<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to build a show that arts lovers can enjoy and non-arts lovers can equally enjoy,\u201d Shin said, \u201cwith a diversity of experiences that are all remarkable but in different ways. Every piece in Wonderspaces is intended be fun artwork that plays on perception or is immersive in some way or interactive in some way that makes it appealing and enjoyable for a wide audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not surprising to a Marine town like San Diego, Shin and Charles\u2019 Marine Corps experience is helping their venture succeed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things we are excited about is we feel like the core competence of this company is the operations and logistics. We look at ourselves as a deliverer of arts experiences. People are surprised to hear that we\u2019re Marines working in art. But that\u2019s exactly what we need to do well for this to be successful. The artists and designers are the ones who have created these great experiences, and we do the nuts and bolts to make them available to the people of San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n Excitement about Wonderspaces is also evident among the artists.<\/p>\n Shawn Causey, who created \u201cSweet Spot\u201d with Mark Daniell, is delighted that their work will have a new audience.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited to see it again,\u201d Causey said. \u201cIt\u2019s been in the studio in boxes, and I miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n She described their motionless installation piece of 3,700 colored nylon chords as being like \u201crhythms of warm and cool, deep and bright contrast and then the overall \u2013 almost as if you were swimming through warm water in a lake and then came to a cool patch. That is the sort of experience we\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n Viewers of \u201cSweet Spot\u201d stand among the chords and watch colors blend and change as they move their heads.<\/p>\n \u201cWe weren\u2019t really sure what we would get when we made it last March until we had it hung with the black backdrop and it came alive,\u201d Causey explained. \u201cThat\u2019s the thing that overwhelms people. The color is one thing, but it\u2019s the physicality and how your brain is trying to reconcile what is happening. It\u2019s extremely low tech, but it\u2019s so stimulating. We had people asking us if it was moving.\u201d<\/p>\n Wonderspaces\u2019 large entryway, created by David McCarty and titled \u201cPulse Portal,\u201d is another opportunity for viewers to engage the artwork. The 18-by-18-foot sculpture is made of shiny Plexiglas panels that dazzle and vary as light and the viewer shift.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can step one foot to the left,\u201d McCarty said, \u201cand it looks hot pink, and you take a step to the right and it can look green\u2014even one color out of one eye and a different one out of the other.\u201d<\/p>\n After seeing \u201cPulse Portal\u201d at Burning Man 2016, Shin and Charles reached out to McCarty in hopes of bringing his sculpture to San Diego.<\/p>\n McCarty described their discussion: \u201cThey want to make exceptional art available to everyone. I thought that was a fantastic idea. It seemed like a great match. I was excited because there weren\u2019t any other arts organizations that were bringing cool art to the public to be seen in this way. My mission is to bring a little bit more joy and wonder in the world. I think it\u2019s critical because too much of the time our focus is on what\u2019s wrong with the earth. When you can step out of that and consider the possibilities, that\u2019s really a life-enriching experience.\u201d<\/p>\n The public can consider such possibilities at Wonderspaces for a range of prices, from $16 to $24. Tickets are available on the exhibit\u2019s website at wonderspaces.com<\/a>. \u2014Kit-Bacon Gressitt writes commentary and essays on her blog Excuse Me, I\u2019m Writing, is a founding editor of WritersResist.com, and has been published by Missing Slate, Ms. Magazine blog and Trivia: Voices of Feminism, among others. She formerly wrote for the North County Times. She also hosts Fallbrook Library\u2019s monthly Writers Read authors series and open mic, and can be reached at kbgressitt@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Por Kit-Bacon Gressitt<\/p>","protected":false},"author":844,"featured_media":234092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"Former Marines bring interactive art display to Mission Valley","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11547,11557,11551,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-features","category-mission-valley-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n