Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos
Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos
Kal Spelletich
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Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos, Kal Spelletich. 2023. Paperback. 8 x 9. 36 pages. Staple Bound. Full Color. Designed by Uma Das O'Toole. Edited with an introduction by Clark Buckner. Additional essay by Max Blue. Telematic Media Arts. ISBN#: 978-0-9907934-5-8. $20.00
A exhibition catalog, documenting work by artist Kal Spelletich, in he responds as an artist to science’s extraordinary, transformative contributions to visual culture and human understanding. Reconstructing scientific tools and experiments with light, stones, sound, metal, video, and machines, his kinetic sculptures and installations explore the sublime dimensions and durations of astronomy, geology, and physics. He highlights their explosion of experience’s everyday parameters, evoking wonder in the face of nature and raising the question concerning our place in the universe. At a time when the authority of science has been crudely dismissed, and critical thinking has given way to groundless conspiracy theories, Spelletich explores fundamental scientific discoveries and the weight of their hold on the world.
About the Artist
Kal Spelletich is an American contemporary artist. A pioneer of San Francisco's machine art scene, he hand builds complex machines and robots. Current work, in 2018, includes building functional artificial robotic organs as a residence of the Stochastic Labs in Berkeley California. Through a collaboration with audience members who volunteer to control or operate his sculptures, Spelletich's work explores the interface of robots and humans.