Aerial Reference Studies

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Description

A series of temporary sculptures that reconfigure reference markers used in aerial cartography. These studies connect to a body of work (Visible From Space 2009-present) the outcomes of which include installations, performances, videos, outdoor projections, prints, handmade paper, artist books, essays, and site-specific events. Visible from Space erupts from a thought experiment about creating drawings on Earth so large they would be visible from the moon.  

 

Bio

Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist whose diverse range of works include installation, printmaking, video, sculptural objects, handmade paper, artists books, code, net.art, and projections which have been exhibited internationally, notably at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Cultural Center, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, La Villette and the China Academy of Art; with screenings at the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE, ANIMAC, ExUrban Screens, New Forms Festival, and ISEA2014 Dubai. He has received commissions from Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org, and was awarded a 2014 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. Catanese is Director of Graduate Study and Associate Professor of Art & Art History at Columbia College Chicago. http://www.paulcatanese.com