Every Icon, 1996
Software: Web Based and Wall Hanging (Macintosh PowerBook170 and G3 versions with Plastic Acrylic)
14.5 x 10.5 x 3.5 inches
Runs Continuously, Never Repeats
Unlimited Numbered Edition
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Every Icon is a piece of conceptual art realized in software that has been presented as an online installation, a Palm Pilot application, a wall projection, and a self-contained wall hanging object. The piece consists of a 32 x 32 square grid where every square can be colored black or white. Every Icon starts with an image where every square is white and progresses through combinations of black and white squares until every square is black. The piece will show every possible image. Although it takes only 1.36 years to display all of the variations along the first line, it takes an exponentially longer 5.85 billion years to complete the second line. Even in this limited visual space, there are more images than the human mind can experience in many lifetimes. In this way the piece comments on the promise of technology and the artist.
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2016: |
30th Year Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, SVA's Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
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2014: |
//the_ART_of_DATA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
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2010: |
Traffic Art 2010, Sequence, Quebec, Canada
01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA
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2008: |
NETworking: Net Art from the Computer Fine Arts Collection, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
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2006: |
{Grid <> Matrix}, Mildrid Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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2005: |
Techno/Sublime, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
John F. Simon, Jr., Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Metamorfosis, Museo Extremeno e Iber oamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
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2004: |
John F. Simon, Jr, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Deluth; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ; University Museums, University of Richmond, VA
RuntimeArt, Mi2 Exhibition Space, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
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2003: |
Dirty Pixels Show, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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2002: |
John F. Simon, Jr.,SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Digital Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
John F. Simon, Jr. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Electrohype 2002 Biennial , Malmo, Sweden
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2001: |
Work from the Permanent Collection, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
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2000: |
2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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1997: |
Every Icon, Stadium Online Gallery, curated by Ron Wakkary, www.stadiumweb.com, New York
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