Alternate Currents — Caleb Weintraub

Selected Works

Alternate Current Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 42" × 66"

Bloom 40" × 32"

Whir 40" × 32"

Merge Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 40" × 64"

Passage 40" × 34.9"

Automatic 40" × 34.9"

Body English Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 40" × 34.9"

Set in Stone Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 40" × 64"

Ripple 40" × 34.9"

Live Wire 40" × 34.9"

Heavy Load Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 34.9" × 40"

Surge 40" × 34.9"

Release 40" × 34.9"

Full Charge Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 40" × 64"

Transit 40" × 34.9"

Drift 40" × 34.9"

Reverse Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 34.9" × 40"

Loop 40" × 34.9"

Steady Wave 40" × 34.9"

Cocoon Chromatic Dye Sublimation on Aluminum, 40" × 34.9"

Spectrum Dynamic Projected Video, Dimensions Variable

About the Project

Alternate Currents is a collaboration between artist Caleb Weintraub and psychologist Dr. Dan Kennedy, developed alongside staff and participants at CIP Bloomington, Indiana — an organization that supports young adults on the autism spectrum.

The project uses motion capture and 3D modeling to translate the rhythms of self-stimulatory movement — rocking, swaying, hand-flapping, pacing — into visible form. These movements become trails of light, particle fields, sculptural frameworks. Some are luminous. Others are dense, tangled, resistant to interpretation. The work doesn't smooth over that complexity or insist on legibility. Not every movement resolves into something beautiful, and not every pattern yields to meaning — and that refusal is part of the truth of the experience.

One participant described the experience of turning in circles as spinning a cocoon between herself and the world.

Aesthetic decisions throughout the series — choices of color, light, and material — were shaped by conversations with participants about what these movements feel like from the inside. The work does not interpret or explain. It makes visible.

The project began as part of (Re)imagining Science at the Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, and continues to expand through previously unexplored motion capture sessions and new collaborative exchanges.