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Every Icon, 1996 See Every Icon Running as a Java Applet Software: web based and wall hanging (Macintosh PowerBook170 and plastic acrylic) versions Runs Continuously, Never Repeats Every Icon is a piece of conceptual art realized in software that has been presented as an online installation, a Palm Pilot application, and a self-contained wall hanging object. The piece consists of a 32 x 32 square grid where every square can be colored black or white. Every Icon starts with an image where every square is white and progresses through combinations of black and white squares until every square is black. The piece will show every possible image. Although it takes only 1.36 years to display all of the variations along the first line, it takes an exponentially longer 5.85 billion years to complete the second line. Even in this limited visual space, there are more images than the human mind can experience in many lifetimes. In this way the piece comments on the promise of technology and the artist.  2006: {Grid <> Matrix}, Mildrid Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 2005: Techno/Sublime, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Metamorfosis, Museo Extremeno e Iber oamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain John F. Simon, Jr., Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA 2004: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Deluth; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; University Museums, University of Richmond, VA. Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN RuntimeArt, Mi2 Exhibition Space, Zagreb, Yugoslavia 2003: Dirty Pixels Show, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2002: SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA Electrohype 2002 Biennial, Malmo, Sweden 2001: Work from the Permanent Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA 2000: 2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1997: Every Icon, Stadium Online Gallery, curated by Ron Wakkary, www.stadiumweb.com, New York artist statement - published in Parachute Magazine Matt Mirapaul - Arts@Large in the New York Times Article

 

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