ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty:
2006-2007 Exhibition

April 14 through September 9, 2007

HILARY HARP and SUZIE SILVER

Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver
Nebula, 2006-2007
Video, wood, mirrors
68 x 25 x 16"
Courtesy of the artists

Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver

Nebula is a hallucinogenically immersive spectacle:  a complex, long-form
audio-visual composition which pays playful homage to science fiction
fantasies.  Captured for video by means of stop-motion photography, objects
made of glass, glitter and tulle are nestled within a kaleidoscopic flow of
computer-generated imagery. 

Drawing from Thomas Wilfred's Clavilux, color organs as well as experimental abstract filmmakers such as Mary Ellen Bute and James and John Whitney, Nebula also recalls liquid-light shows and the marvelous sightings of the Hubble Space Telescope. 

By enveloping the viewer in a multi-sensory experience absolutely other than our daily materiality, Nebula mines the wonder and pleasure at the root of both cosmology and camp.

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