About this project
I plan to publish and design catalog to be released in conjunction with my monumental installation, "Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Magic", to be unveiled at the Hungarian Cultural Center Gallery on September 15th. Your pledges will allow me to pay for the printing of 500 copies. The catalog will be in full color with an introduction by the curator Corinne Erni, examples of my past work, an essay by Norman Ballard, an artist description and extensive documentation of the installation including detailed close ups, and a four-page, fold-out spread of the entire piece.
This installation is 11 feet tall and 146 feet long and made entirely out of hundreds of hand-cut gypsum board polyhedra and over 650 stills of Youtube or Vimeo video of the night sky from all over the world. These pixel-like stills form a massive reclining skeleton.
Here's a little about the ideas behind this project:
Digital visual language begins with the pixel. This tiny polyhedron is the primary building block of digital images and allows us to see and connect with each other in the Virtual World. When this contact occurs, we bring in aspects of ourselves, exchanging atoms for pixels. This connectivity creates avatars, extensions of our Actual World personas who act as our ambassadors inside the Virtual World.
This constant travel across the Actual/Virtual border begs these questions: How closely related are pixels and atoms? And are they growing closer together?
When the viewer engages with this piece, they experience both the micro of pixels and atoms and the macro of the digital and physical universes. As the viewer changes their vantage points to the art, they move in and out of these universes, experiencing the overlap, sensing our changing connectedness with the natural and digital worlds.
Janos Stone, 2010
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Backers
$1,850
pledged of $3,800 goal
Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on September 6, 2010.
Pledge $10 or more
For 10. you will receive a virtual HI-5, along with a high quality large format JPEG image of the installation
Pledge $25 or more
For $25 you will receive a 12"x36" high quality color, archival print of the completed installation. This is an additioned series and each print is signed and numbered.
Pledge $75 or more
For $75, you will receive one signed catalog. The catalog will be in full color with an introduction by the curator Corinne Erni, examples of my past work, an essay by Norman Ballard, an artist description and extensive documentation of the installation including detailed close ups, and a four-page, fold-out spread of the entire piece. A personal note written in the catalog can be included.
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I am a New/Mixed Media Sculptor based in New York, who blends formal sculpture with digital technology.
My overall work deals with the relationships we have through and with the Internet examining atoms and bits, who's shared characteristics facilitate a symbiotic relationship between people and computers. I have exhibited throughout in N. America and in Europe.
At 22, I began teaching sculpture at Brown University, moving to Lesley University in 1999. I now teach in Second Life, the on-line world, for SUNY Buffalo and lecture at Pratt and the School of Visual Art, New York City and through out the Northeast.
