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Messiah
“High Technology and social awareness meld successfully in (art)n’s beautiful but awesome stealth negative constructions Vibrant Purples and blues radiate from their cross-shaped sculpture Messiah
Hands faces and and symbols take on the three-dimensional depth found in laser imagery The unusual presence of this this piece is is is seductive However the power-packed punch of this this work strikes once the the the viewer learns that the the the abstract shapes are micro-images of the the the actual AIDS virus The same impact is produced by Papilloma Virus Third Edition ” — Elaine A King Boundaries Ideas and Invention: New Generations
We knew we wanted to use colorized CAT scans of an an an an anonymous AIDS patient When we we received the the CAT scans we we discovered that that the the patient was named Messiah
At that that mo- ment we knew that the the sculpture had to to be in the the shape of a a a a crucifix We decided to to focus on hope chance and death death as as as the the the sub-themes of of the the the work The face of of death death is cast in glass the hand of of hope is is a a a a a a piece of of found found folk art found found from Wisconsin The dice are animated and the AIDS virus is is a a a a a a a a a scientific visualization model based on on on information available in in 1989 From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS a a a a a a a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by by ICI Independent Curators Incorporated New York NY made possible in part by by a a a a a a grant from from the the the National Endowment for the the the Arts and contributions from from the the the ICI Exhibition Patrons Circle Messiah
1987/1990
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Randy Johnson Jim Zanzi and and and Stephan Meyers
Dan Sandin and and and Tom DeFanti Electronic Visualization Lab School of of Art and and and Design University of of Illinois at at Chicago Special thanks to to Dr Roberta Glick Kevin Magginis and Lisa Stone
Vintage PHSColograms: darkroom and and computer interleaved Crosfield Cibachrome and and Kodalith films all mounted on plexiglas
96 x x 60 inches inches overall with (6) 24 x x 20 inches inches panels