Project Description

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“In the 19th century, artists argued over such niceties as whether it was artistically proper to add opaque color to traditional transparent watercolors. In those days each medium’s boundaries were jealously defended with a territorial ferocity worthy of wild beasts…Ericka Beckman’s darkened interior holds five mural-sized photographs. ‘Pictures,’ she says, will surround you.’ The images will be intermittently made visible by a computer-controlled sequence of illumination. ‘Essentially what you’re seeing is an animated loop,’ Beckman explains…”

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Project Detail

  • Hallwalls to Unveil Pioneering Media Art
  • Richard Huntington
  • Buffalo News
  • April 3, 1988