(Installation)
X-ray photographs, magnetic resonance imaging digital images, computer generated animation, Plexiglas, and objects
Documentation duration 1:51min. © 1993
Synopsis
Nothing Broke but the Heart is a physical poem, a concrete interpretation of the metaphoric language we use to verbalize love and emotions. Modern, cold, invasive... none-the-less, state-of-the-art electronic medical technologies; X-ray beams, huge electromagnets, computers, film, and video, have been used to create very literal invocations of metaphors that have existed since the age of the Troubadours.
The installation contrasts the subjective expression of emotional injury with the objective analysis of physical injury. One can search for broken bones using X-rays. It is straightforward for a doctor to heal them. But, even with the most advanced medical imaging technology, the high-speed EPI scan, it is not possible to find the "break" in a heart. One cannot see the source of the pain.
Exhibitions
1997
Top '97, Frauen Kulturbureau NRW Düsseldorf, Germany
1995
SIGGRAPH 95 Art Show
Los Angeles, USA
1995
Galerie am Wiedfang
2. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany1994
Videonale Bonn 6, Bonn, Germany
1993
New Digital Media:
Two American Artists in Köln
Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany
Catalogs & Reviews
Hein, Helmut. "Liebes-Ikone, Trümmerherz", Die Woche Magazin 28, November 9, 1995.
Martino, Jacquelyn. "The SIGGRAPH 95 Art Gallery", ACM Computer Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 4 November 1995, page 56.
Videonalle Bonn 6 Catalog
This work was created during a fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
© Clea T. Waite 1993