That we are constantly communicating, perceiving and experiencing the world through media devices has been at the heart of Tony Oursler’s work. Wavefront employs a sculptural component, comprised of TV antenna-like structure with fragmented plastic surfaces. Video is projected onto this and the wall behind it. This creates a series of shifting, fragmented and multi-planar images. Wavefront is part of a body of work in which Oursler studied a group of people who believed they could use technology to commune with the dead. In Oursler’s construction, the sculpture’s dispersal of the imagery is analogous to the haunting visage that floats in the projection.

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