2021 Exhibition
23. Pulsar
Mask Required Within the Art Installation Zone (Regardless of Vaccination Status). Social Distancing Encouraged.
Artist Information
Pulsar is the latest iteration of a line of my work which artist Patrick Ethen characterize as star simulations: large-scale, immersive, cosmic representations of some idealized space technology. Pulsars are naturally occurring, rapidly spinning, highly magnetized compact stars that emit beams of radiation out of their magnetic poles- the leftover remains of a star core after a supernova. Ethen will be using hand-wired LEDs and generative code to create an abstracted light object version of a pulsar, one which feels alien in nature, which oscillates and pulses to its own rhythm, creating a hypnotizing atmosphere that pulls the observer in with its gravity.
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Patrick Ethen
Patrick Ethen is an artist and designer who uses light as a medium to explore emergent and ephemeral behavior, using meticulously wired arrays of electronics to construct installations which envelop the viewer in a meditative, immersive aura which feels simultaneously human and artificial. His work sits between analog and digital system creation, illuminating the role of the human hand in a digital age. Describing the practice as a sort of “pseudo-spiritual techno-futurism,” Ethen’s work is a commentary on the role of technology and its influence on society.
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