Detail View: Art and Art History Student Work:
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Image File Name:
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vrc_20160923_008
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Image Record ID:
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aahi0015555
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Work Title (display):
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The Distance Between
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Image Title:
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view from front
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Work Description:
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Artist Statement: When looking up at the stars at night what I see is something from long ago. Light emitted from stars has travelled, in most cases, somewhere around 13 billion years to reach my observation on Earth. They become images of an ancient time. The twinkle of starlight is a perceptual effect that we commonly experience anytime we gaze up at the night sky. However, more and more people have gravitated towards cities where light pollution scatters for miles upon miles. Even in cities where the nights are abundantly clear and light pollution is low, our visibility of the actual night sky, the stars, is diminished quite severely. What we usually experience is a pinkish-orange haze that coats the sky, leaving one to look up and find a few closer, brighter stars, and not much else. Stars were the first night light. They became the place where humans formed the earliest cosmological structures; our deepest symbols and meaning grow out of those structures. Humans have relied on it for navigation of both the physical and spiritual world. These early understandings that humans came to are deeply engrained within my body and mind, within my psyche and languages. In the span of human development, television is an extremely sudden, and thus far, short lived human tool. Even with the small window of time that TV has been with us, it has drastically re-shaped our cognition, our sight, our mannerisms, and our behaviors. For many people in the 20th, and now 21st, century, media screens like televisions are a main source of light at night. It is what we sleep to. Even when the content is at its most loud and obnoxious, it can still manage to lull our bodies into a state of relaxation. When an analog television is not receiving a transmission from somewhere specific, it displays noise. This is “noise” at its purest, in that it is a completely random and indeterminate series of dots passing through each other electronically. There are numerous sources of electromagnetic noise that cause the familiar patterns of static. Atmospheric sources of noise are the most ubiquitous, and include electromagnetic signals driven by cosmic microwave background radiation. Cosmic microwave background radiation saturates nearly the entire observable universe, and according to most cosmologists, is left over from an early stage in the development of our perceived universe. Television noise is a signal from the stars, a vacant and mysterious message. The ambience of TV, the white noise, clears our mind of thought; it alters our brain wavelengths. This is why people use it to fall asleep, or to take a temporary escape from immediate reality and mundane life. Stars and televisions are ubiquitous tools for navigating the night, for preparing dreams, and providing light. Their distant signals have universally shaped humanity.
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Work Dates (display):
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2013
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Work Dates type:
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creation
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Work Creator (display):
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Ryan Wade Ruehlen (American, born 1984)
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Work Creator gender:
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
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Written thesis: https://aahvrc.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/s/8rt7jn
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Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
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MFA 2013, Art and Art History
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Work Creator memberOf:
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Digital Arts (IMAP) student, Art and Art History, CU Boulder
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Work Creator memberOf notes:
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IMAP: Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices
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Work Subject:
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television (telecommunication system)
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Work Subject:
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perception
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Work Subject:
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stars
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Work Subject:
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technology
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Work Subject:
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video recordings (physical artifacts)
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Work Subject:
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autobiography
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Work Worktype:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
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CRT-televisions, wood, latex, fabric
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Work Measurements (display):
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8 ft (H) x 8 ft (W) x 6 ft (D)
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Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
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University of Colorado Art Museum
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Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
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exhibition
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Work Location (Geographic) name:
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Boulder, Colorado
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Image Rights (display):
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© Ryan Wade Ruehlen
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Work Rights (display):
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© Ryan Wade Ruehlen
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Holding Institution:
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Collection:
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Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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Collection info and contact:
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