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"There is a yet unnamed art movement that may prove to be of some significance, and Burning Man is close to its center. It is a movement away from galleries, schools and other institutions and towards an art produced in and for casual groups of participants, more akin to clans and tribes, based on aesthetic affinities and bonds of friendship. It is a movement away from static gallery art and formal theater and towards site-specific, time-specific installation and performance. It is radically inclusive, it is a difficult challenge, and it is beckoning."

About the artist:

Tim Black's passion is integrating art and technology. By bringing together the two, he has created designs that have been showcased at Burningman and other public venues. Trained in engineering, Tim Black has been working since 1976 as an embedded systems engineer and has created control networks for major cable systems and broadcast newsrooms.

Extensive study of the processes of human perception has lead to the creation of art in diverse forms. His background in hardware design and embedded computer programming has lead to using micro-controllers as an essential part of his art. This work embodies the concept of engineering as an art form. All aspects of the art, from the circuit boards to the operating systems and network protocols are designed from scratch for the purpose of expressing the vision of a unique work.

His works are both software and hardware, creating unique physical display devices that shatter the rectangular form of common computer displays. The art is also in the software, computer code that creates patterns of light dancing at the edge of perception, too fast or too slow to fit into the expected range of vision. The result is a collection of visual displays that play upon side effects in the viewer's eyes, and cannot be captured by film or video.