CausalityLabs is the an Art collective project of Galo Moncayo-Asan and Andy Holtin. Working together on performative and interactive objects and Installation art, they create new experiences from the world's moveable and makeable parts. CausalityLabs^[1], create works that explore the nature of the world through a kind of mechanical theatre with humor and mimicry. Their collective works dig into materials and events to get at our notions of meaning, sequence and cause and effect. Holtin is a professor of sculpture at American University. Moncayo is currently a member of the Studio Hadid master class at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria.

CausalityLabs pursues an understanding of consciousness through the scrutiny of the mechanisms that render experience knowable and make meaning possible. In direct attention to these mechanisms, whether physical, technical, conceptual, linguistic, or otherwise, these investigations revel in the ambiguities and vagaries of the assumptions that frame our experience. By producing and engaging with performative objects and phenomena an awareness of sequence, of cause and effect, is heightened, though it is also convoluted and challenged. Our own attention, the intervals of memory, and the mediated connection to the material of our world become both the objects and means of a curiosity carried out in the theater of making and doing, watching and listening.

Exhibitions/Screenings[edit]

CausalityLabs
CausalityLabs
Background information
Origin	Washington DC, Vienna Austria
Genres	Sculpture / Installation / Extended Media
Members	Andy Holtin, Galo Moncayo-Asan

2010[edit]

The World as we know it, American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center http://www.american.edu/cas/katzen/

2009[edit]

Worlds Apart, The Front, New Orleans The Front

Options 2009 Biennial; Conner Contemporary; Washington, DC

We all Need a Creation Myth III, Raum D, quartier21 in the MusemsQuartier http://www.mqw.at/index.php?page_id=13

Designing Intelligence?; The Schmidt Center Gallery; Flordia Atlantic University http://www.fau.edu/galleries/index.php

2008[edit]

Untold stories of being where you are. Takt kuntsprojektraum, Berlin Germany takt

2007[edit]

Amistad, guerra, comercio… MAAC - Museo_Antropologico_y_de_Arte_Contemporaneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Search, Museo Planetario Alfa, Planetario Alfa, Monterrey, Mexico

Chance, DCAC Washington, DC http://www.dcartscenter.org/

2006[edit]

Estructuras Existentes, solo Amistad, guerra, comercio,… ECO Monterrey, Mexico.

Andy Holtin[edit]

Assistant Professor Art

Andy Holtin^[2] received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture and Exended Media program. His work uses technological systems to create perfomative objects and interactive installations, incorporating an exploratory range of materials and processes. Holtin currently works as half of the collaborative duo CausalityLabs, pursuing projects that explore mechanism as metaphor for human experience and perception. His work has been exhibited internationally at locations including Galerie35, Berlin, Germany; Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo, Ecuador; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Planetario Alfa Science and Culture Museum, Mexico; and nationally at museums, galleries, and universities from New York to Portland to Florida. Holtin teaches all levels of Sculpture, addressing traditional media as well as installation formats, kinetic and interactive systems, and digital audio and video. Degrees MFA, Sculpture and Extended Media, VCUVirginia Commonwealth University BA, Studio Art; Freed-Hardeman University

The Shapes of Sound and Silence by Erika Knudson[edit]

Moncayo makes fanciful machines that create patterns of sound and line, artistic automatons that play with our expectations and preconceptions about how to interact with and view art. A recent work, short-lived moments, is an example of his experimental creative process. ^[3]

Links[edit]

VCU Alumni Portafolio Galo Moncayo

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