An image from photographer Taryn Simon who has compiled images of rarely seen places, animals, people and things in her book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.

Cryopreservation Unit
Cryonics Institute
Clinton Township, Michigan

This cryopreservation unit holds the bodies of Rhea and Elaine Ettinger, the mother and first wife of cryonics pioneer, Robert Ettinger. Robert, author of “The Prospect of Immortality” and “Man into Superman” is still alive.

The Cryonics Institute offers cryostasis (freezing) services for individuals and pets upon death. Cryostasis is practiced with the hope that lives will ultimately be extended through future developments in science, technology, and medicine. When, and if, these developments occur, Institute members hope to awake to an extended life in good health, free from disease or the aging process. Cryostasis must begin immediately upon legal death. A person or pet is infused with ice-preventive substances and quickly cooled to a temperature where physical decay virtually stops. The Cryonics Institute charges $28,000 for cryostasis if it is planned well in advance of legal death and $35,000 on shorter notice.

Excerpt from An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar

Group exhibit I’m part of at Cal Arts.  Also did up the flyer, I am quite happy with it!

John Whitney, Catalog 1961!  

Whitney reengineered a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight to create these animations. The number of simultaneous parameters look rather complex for such an early computer system. They appear autonomous as well.  An example of the beginnings of artificial intelligence as early as 1944?

1. “I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.” - Dalí

2. “Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí.” - Dalí

3. Salvador Dalí on the television show What’s My Line?

Schwitter’s Merzbauten, an ongoing work that spanned a decade.  The dadaist has received a spike in interest as of late and efforts to restore his rural studio in England where he spent the last 18 years of his life have begun.

My Saab died, wish I could replace it with another Swedish machine.

Majoring in Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Michael Ciervo creates beautifully cold images that exhibit a certain sense of displacement. The nearly completely desaturated images mimic the fluidity of watercolors though he employs oils in these paintings.

Kate Mccgwire’s Vex, 2008

Kate Mccgwire’s Heave, 2008

Detail of Vex:

Emily Valentine’s Pair of Pugcocks, 2008

Emily Valentine’s Red Shepard

Goodness, Graphite on paper

Detail

Figure Studies by American photographer Bill Durgin, visually amputating his subjects via contortion and perspective.




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A very worthwhile video showcasing the properties of ferrofluids in the context of the visual arts.

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Kapoor’s White Out 2004.