The Equation of Terror

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Ellen Sandor

The Equation of Terror , 1991 – ongoing

Co-workers & Funding

Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Stephan Meyers, James Zanzi and Craig Ahmer

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Last updated: 2019-01-31

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The Equation of Terror

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Description

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.

Keywords

aesthetics
- collaborative
- contextual
- experimental
- time-based
- virtual
- visual
genres
- digital animation
- digital graphics
subjects
- Power and Politics
  - economy
  - geopolitics
  - politics
  - warfare
- Technology and Innovation
  - innovation

Technology & Material

Display

3-20”x24” and 2-11”x14” Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Cibachrome, Kodalith, Plexiglas
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Exhibitions & Events

Art in Chicago 1945-1995

1996

Bibliography

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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