February 23, 2007
Where High Tech Meets High Concept
A digital-arts center at the U. of Washington explores the aesthetics of technology
Shawn Brixey's "Altimira" is a decidedly strange work of art — so strange that he has not, to date, put it on public display. He turns on a device, housed in a basketball-size glass chamber, and it converts rapidly pulsating radio signals emanating from pulsars — collapsed stars that spin violently, sweeping their poles like lighthouses through space — and directs them
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