Eric Wielosinski's
interactive video installation Gasp depicts
children who are frantically gasping for air.
When the viewer approaches the image, a child
holds his breath until the viewer leaves. Together,
the children form a wall of pensive sound. Individually,
they react to the viewer's presence.
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Eric Wielosinski
Eric Wielosinski is a Chicago-based interactive
artist and designer whose work explores issues
inherent to the life sciences, commodity culture,
interactivity. His GASP installation is
on exhibit at the Here Art Center in New York.
Eric has exhibited at Paper Veins Museum of Art,
New York, New York; TBA Gallery, Chicago, Illinois;
Sienna Heights University, Adrian, Michigan; The
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend,
Indiana; among others.
Eric received an MFA from The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago and is an instructor
in Visual Communications at The American Academy
of Art and The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
"My work explores the disappearing line
between nature and artifice, simulation and simulacra
within media culture. My past projects have explored
the transformation of life sciences into an informational
science (AI) and the history of eugenics in correlation
to present day risks of genetic determinism (Perfect,
SmartChild). My more recent work investigates
the branded landscape of youth marketing and the
conditioning of youth to capitalism (Gasp)."
- Eric Wielosinski
For more information about Mr. Wielosinski, please
visit:
http://www.muzzle.org/wielo
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