Paul Hertz: Deadpan, or The Holy Toast

Title:

Deadpan, or The Holy Toast

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Paul Hertz

Symposium:

• ISEA95: Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art

Venue(s):

• École Cherrier , Montreal , Canada

Artist Statement:

This work fills in a mathematical idea with evocative images and text. 17 topologically unique divisions of square become bites out of a piece of toasted bread; the number 17 recurs as 17 phanar symmetries of a spiral motif on cloth. The cloth might recall waves on an ocean, or trade across oceans. The toast floats over the cloth, while on the toast silhouettes of islands filled with text suggest a linkage of colonization to consumption of information.

Category:

• Art Exhibition
• 2D Art