PHACAEANS
Desktop Video/Laptop Installation
by Sloane McFarlandAPRIL 1 - MAY 20, 2000
PHACAEANS, desktop video stills, courtesy of the artist
PHACAEANS
Phoenix has rapidly developed from a desert landscape of saguaro, buttes
and roaming wildlife to its current cityscape of over three million people.
Desktop video artist Sloane McFarland superimposes an Homeric tale on this
melding of desert land and optic-linked people: Odysseus' encounter with
the Phaeacian people. PHACAEANS, a desktop video/laptop installation,
assumes the perspective of one living from and through a desert metropolis;
one who - using calculus and memory - recognizes that surroundings constantly
transmute.
About the Artist
Sloane McFarland currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a desktop
video/installation artist, making videos with a consumer-available camera
and computer. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Mathematics
from St. John’s College of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1995.
His recent projects include: Spine, a desktop video/sound installation
as the inaugural exhibition of Jennifer Katell’s Guard Shack space at Bergamont
Station, Santa Monica, California; T-West, a desktop video/performance/installation
at Barlow & Straker, Phoenix, Arizona; and NAUSAKKAA, a desktop video/laptop
installation for the one-hundred artist exhibition The Spurgeon Experience,
Santa Ana, California, curated by Mike McGee and Max Presneill.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by John D. Spiak, PHACAEANS will be installed in the 2,400-square-foot
Experimental Gallery of the Arizona State University Art Museum at Matthews
Center. The installation will include more than two dozen desktop videos
presented on laptop computers, heard on wireless headsets.
Duration
PHACAEANS (April 1 - May 20, 2000) is open from 10 am to 5 pm, Tuesday
through Saturday.
Support
The exhibition at the Arizona State University Art Museum is supported in
part by Friends of the Arizona State University Art Museum.
Press Release
Press
release for the exhibition
Suggested Reading
The
Odyssey by Homer
Book VI through XIII
translated by Samuel Butler available
on The Internet Classics Archive
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