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Installation view: Staller Center, SUNY, 1995	Virtual Kaleidoscope 1994: C-64 computer, monitor, joy stick, and software
Detail: monitor screen Quick Time Movie (2.5 megs)	The Virtual Kaleidoscope scrambles the text of art world quotations into kaleidoscopic patterns which the viewer can navigate using a joy stick. The original version seen here ran on a recycled Commodore C-64 computer. When it was exhibited at the @Cafe on St. Mark's Place, NYC in 1995 it was covered by Bill Rabinovitch's "Art Seen," and you can view a Quick Time Movie Clip of Bill's coverage by clicking the image.
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Provenance:

1998 "A Common Thread; Digital Media and the Creative Process,"
	   curated by Victor Faccinto, Wake Forest University, NC           
1995 "art AND technology," curated by Richard Leslie,
		University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts,
		State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 
	 "DIGITAL SITE art/computer interface," curated by M. Frisk and
		C. Pannucci, @Cafe, 12 St. Mark's Place NYC
		(World Wide WEB site: http:/ /nttad.com/asci
1994 "Engaging Optics," curated by R. Marc Fasanella,
		The Gallery at Hastings-on-the-Hudson, Hastings, NY

Media Coverage:

1995 The New York Times, "Casting a Spell from Lasers and Video to																	
		Light and Shadow," by Phyllis Braff, page 24 LI (October 22)
	The Stony Brook Statesman, "Interactive Art at the Staller Center,"
		by Pam Gunther, page 8 (Vol XXXIX, No. 17 , October 30),
		Stony Brook, NY
	"art AND technology," catalog essay by Richard Leslie, published by
		University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts,
		State Universiity of New York at Stony Brook, NY
     Manhattan Cable TV, "Art Seen," (August 15)
		produced by Bill Rabinovitch

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