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“Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies" Addresses artists who have been censored by - or due to threats by - high members of the U.S. government. Premiered in 2013 at "Manifest:AR," curator Joseph Hale, Corcoran Gallery of Art/Corcoran School of Art

As global water levels and temperatures rise, plants and animals are mutating to adapt. Strange new creatures are arising at the interstices between plant and animal, questioning and transgressing the boundaries of what is considered to be reactive

The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture. As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two disks to spin in opposite directions. On the

The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power and a structure that references the Eiffel Tower

The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight for the presentation. Additionally, the wind turns

... the Cold War from August 13, 1961 to...

The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks spin, the animation is visible. In this artwork,

... transport people from place to place,...

Starbright World was a pioneering online multi-user 3-D virtual world in which seriously ill children in hospitals across the United States could meet via a network to play with each other as avatars, build a part of the world themselves, discuss

... light streams from a votive image moving...