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Southern Maryland News, Dec 23, 2009, by Pat Ullberg
"Glow," is the title of the splendid winter exhibition in the Arts building [of Annmarie Garden]. Thirty-three artists from all over the nation portray some aspect of light in many different mediums, both two- and three-dimensional. Among these outstanding works are a few sculptures and electronic pieces that leap out and grab the visitors' attention.
...[one] installation allows the visitor to make an electronic painting. A large light table on the floor is connected to a computer monitor. By moving special tools — small cube[s] and a spool-shaped piece — across the light table surface, the viewer changes the colors and shapes and shapes on-screen, in endless different abstract compositions. The viewer can even "own" his work by sending an e-mail to a home computer for screen wallpaper. This entertaining work is titled, "LumaTouch Expressionist," by Rob Gonsalves of Massachusetts. This viewer made a nice Jackson Pollack abstract to send to her home screen. full story...
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Wellesley Townsman, Oct 22, 2009, by Elana Zak
For almost a decade, Halloween on Hillside Road has been marked by jack-o’-lanterns, changing leaves and a large sculpture glowing brightly against the dark sky.
Since 2001, Rob Gonsalves and his wife, Jennifer Lim, have set up light exhibits in their front yard to celebrate Halloween. Using rope lights, the two make a different image each October. One year it was a witch with red eyes that seemed to follow the viewer; another time it was a skull. This Halloween, the light installation isn’t an image, but a phrase. Seen from one angle, it reads “trick.” From another perspective, the word is “treat.” full story...
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Big Red and Shiny, May 06, 2008, by Matthew Nash
In Masked Thoughts, Gonsalves has set up two white cutouts on the tops of poles. One cutout is in the shape of a head, with two holes for eyes, and the other is in the shape of a thought bubble from a cartoon. Looking through the eye-holes, one sees their reflection in a large mirror, with images projected on the two cutouts: faces of politicians, historical or pop culture figures appear, while bits of text fill the thought balloon. Rotating the cutout changes the image or text. Masked Thoughts is a fun and funny play on the identities we adopt when we place an intermediary technology between our selves and others. full story...
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Boston Globe, Aug 16, 2007, by Cate McQuaid
Tremblay and Rob Gonsalves offer "Wave Puppet," in which horizontal cards mounted on several mechanized rods replicate the undulation of a wave. Tremblay said it specifically refers to the Asian tsunami in late 2004, but this version is small and soothing. It's an enchanting robotic seascape, but it is not anthropomorphic. full story...
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Boston Globe, Apr 26, 2007, by Cate McQuaid
The Collision Collective has been around since 2001, and it has a following. Last weekend "COLLISIONeleven," its exhibit at the MIT Stata Center, saw throngs of visitors. Almost as many kids as adults passed through the show, part of both the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Cambridge Science Festival. Nearly every piece begged to be played with: There was "ai8ball," Rob Gonsalves's high-tech, large-scale version of the magic eight ball. full story...
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New York Times, Apr 27, 2005, by Sarah Boxer
Then there is "Janken" (Japanese for "hand game"), a game of rock, paper, scissors created by William Tremblay and Rob Gonsalves. Your opponent is a skeletal hand wiggling on a screen. You compete by sticking your own hand in front of a light sensor in the rock position (a fist), paper position (flat out) or scissors position (two fingers ready to snip). It's creepy and awesome. But there are two hitches: the skeleton will, with no apology, choose its hand position after you've chosen yours (isn't that cheating?); and you've got to orient your own hand exactly or the sensor won't read it correctly. full story...
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Boston Phoenix, Mar 25, 2005, by Randi Hopkins
Then in an example of interactive art that is indeed "hands-on," artists William Tremblay and Rob Gonsalves address the expressive range and power of the human hand in their video installation Janken, which takes its name from the Japanese word for the game " Rock Paper Scissors. full story...
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Boston Globe, Dec 30, 1999, by Cate McQuaid
Techno artists William Tremblay and Rob Gonsalves hit their conceptual mother lode when First Night production director Gina Mullen urged them to come up with a proposal for the millennial shindig. full story...
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