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Instrument for the Translation of Paleographic Memory

1989
Assemblage with led lights, fiber optic cables and meter
17 x 36 x 18 inches
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For sale here from the current private collection,  formerly collection of Richard Garriott

LED lights in a rock refract through fiber optic lines back to the suitcase/ view screen. The ends of the fiber optic lines spread out, imbedded in clear acrylic to form a star-like matrix in the screen. Light patterns can be adjusted with controls in the suitcase apparatus. Inspired by the brain-like appearance of the rock itself, the work explores the absurd notion of extracting memories from a stone, as if this chunk could somehow store the history of a billion year existence.

BRUDNIAK

This piece was in the historically significant “Another Reality” exhibit in Houston featured in the catalog with essays by internationally esteemed art critic Thomas McEvilley and once owned by explorer astronaut Richard Garriott.

“Steve Brudnlak’s sinister suitcase machine seems to be giving shock treatment to a brain-sized stone, which is simultaneously being heated or cooked In a little fondue-warmer. The brain is relating to an outside reality, but what? And through what mediation?”

THOMAS McEVILLEY – Another Reality