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Artist or Maker: Thomas Demand (b.1964)
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Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Private Collection, New York
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Exhibited: Florence, Galleria d'arte Moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Thomas Demand con Caruso St. John architetti a Palazzo Pitti, October 2001.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Hamburg Foto-Triennale, Andere Räaume, Other Spaces, 2001.
Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst; and Munich, Städtische Galerie und Kunstbau im Lenbachhaus, Thomas Demand, October 2002-January 2003 (illustrated).
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Literature: R. Marcoci and J. Eugenides, Thomas Demand, New York, 2005, pp. 94-95 (illustrated).
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Notes: "Calculator, with its room devoid of everything but overhead lighting, a few ventilation shafts in the walls, and bluish light emanating from the paneled floor, resembles nothing so much as the "light and space" projects of California artists Robert Irwin, Maria Nordman, James Turrell, and Douglas Wheeler. In fact, this image replicates the future IBM supercomputer, nicknamed Blue Gene, which when completed in 2005, will process more than one quadrillion operations in a second. A project of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Blue Gene is planned for use in the investigation of areas such as cosmology, the behavior of high explosives and laser-plasma interactions. By relinking photographic inquiry to scientific devices that exceed human vision, Demand acknowledges his interest in the logistics of perception in an age when what is perceived is increasingly mediated by technology."
R. Marcoci, "Paper Moon" in Thomas Demand, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005, p. 23.
