»The Equation of Terror« 
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Information
Ellen Sandor >
»The Equation of Terror«, 1991
Co-Workers & Funding:
Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers, James Zanzi and Craig Ahmerhttps://www.artn.com/virtual-sculpture/
Technology
Display
3-20”x24” and 2-11”x14” Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglashttps://www.artn.com/virtual-sculpture/
Descriptions & Essays
Olga Timurgalieva 05-02-2019
Working extensively with social-political context from the 1980s, in 1991 (art)n created »The Equation of Terror« which referred to the Gulf War. The work entailed animated mathematical equations and PHSColograms which depicted economic, biological and chemical weaponry contrasted with artistic images by Edward Curtis, Lee Miller and others. The piece was included in the catalog of the exhibition »Art in Chicago, 1945-1995« by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Olga Timurgalieva: The Equation of Terror, 05-02-2019, in: Archive of Digital Art Working extensively with social-political context from the 1980s, in 1991 (art)n created »The Equation of Terror« which referred to the Gulf War. The work entailed animated mathematical equations and PHSColograms which depicted economic, biological and chemical weaponry contrasted with artistic images by Edward Curtis, Lee Miller and others. The piece was included in the catalog of the exhibition »Art in Chicago, 1945-1995« by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Literature
Cox, Donna J. and Ellen Sandor and Janine Fron. New Media Futures. The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts. Urbana, Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Warren, Lynne and Jeff Abell, ed. Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 1996.
Sandor, Ellen and Janine Fron and Stephan Meyers. »PHSColograms and Rotated PHSColograms.« Computers & Graphics 19, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 513-522.
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