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MATT TABER

Event Horizon
The world is yours if you are real
In through the out door
Hacienda 2
Naked Earth
Hacienda 1
I want You to want Me
9 Rooms
Intermission 1
Breakfast in America
Wall in the Hole
THE MACHINE OR...
Miscellany




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EVENT HORIZON:

THE PHYSICAL LANDSCAPE IS RECREATED.  ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPES ARE BEING GENERATED
WITH IMAGES AND DATA STOLEN FROM THE NATURAL LANDSCAPE.  THIS APPROPRIATION
ADOPTS THE LANGUAGE OF THE MATHEMATICAL SUBLIME TO DESCRIBE ITS TECHNOLOGICAL
OUTGROWTH.  BY CONFUSING FOOTAGE OF A POTASH PLANT IN MOAB, UTAH WITH FOOTAGE OF
THE REPRESENTATION OF A POTASH PLANT IN MOAB ON GOOGLE EARTH, TABER CALLS
ATTENTION TO THE ONTOLOGICAL CONFUSION THAT IS PRODUCED WHEN REAL AND ARTIFICIAL
LANDSCAPES ARE NO LONGER DISTINGUISHABLE.

AS WE ARE SUBSUMED INTO A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT, OUR POSITION IS COMPLICATED. 
THE COLONIZATION OF DATA IS A COLONIZATION OF SPACE.  EARTH IS A LAYER WITHIN A
MULTILAYERED SYSTEM; A PLATFORM IN A STACK OF PLATFORMS.

EVERY CULTURE HAS MADE REFERENCE TO HUMANS ATTAINING THE POWER OF GOD OR THE
GODS. BY THE LATE 1980’S THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA BOTH POSSESSED NUCLEAR
ARSENALS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO ANNIHILATE ALL LIFE ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A POWER EXCLUSIVELY POSSESSED BY THE DIVINE WAS ACHIEVED
BY HUMANS.

THE ILLUMINATED SCULPTURE IS CREATED FROM ANTIQUE GLASS COLORED WITH URANIUM
FROM THE UNITED STATES AND THE FORMER USSR. IN THE 1920S AND 30’S THERE WAS NO
APPLICABLE USE FOR URANIUM AND IT WAS USED TO COLOR INEXPENSIVE DOMESTIC GLASS
OBJECTS SUCH AS CANDLESTICKS, ASHTRAYS, AND TEA CUPS.
THESE ARE ARTIFACTS FROM BEFORE THE GREAT NUCLEAR AWAKENING.

THE VIDEO SHOWS FOOTAGE OF PREHISTORIC DESERT LANDSCAPES INCLUDING AREAS WHERE
URANIUM WAS MINED AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS WERE TESTED. THESE PARTS OF THE PLANET
PRESUMABLY LOOKED THE SAME BEFORE HUMANS ARRIVED AND WILL LOOK THE SAME AFTER
HUMANS LEAVE.





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