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Sarah Zucker



STRABISMUS

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 * The top 100 bids will each win a randomly chosen artwork from Strabismus.
 * The top 10 bids will also receive an exclusive artwork from Sarah’s private
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The top 10 bids will each receive an additional limited-edition artwork from
Sarah’s archive.

A collection of 100 looping video artworks by Sarah Zucker. Launching May 1st,
2024 at 9am PT via 24 hour ranked auction with a .3 ETH starting price. Tokens
will be distributed randomly amongst winners. Powered by Highlight.

“That’s 3D Art. Computers generate ‘em. BIG computers.”

- Cosmo Kramer, Seinfeld Season 6, Episode 6

I was born with a magic eye. Thanks to a condition known as “Strabismus,” my
left eye marches very much to the beat of its own drum. You could say that it is
“crossed,” but I like to think of it as a bit of a maverick.

Beyond a charming appearance, this has affected my vision my entire life. While
most people perceive depth physically through the stereoscopic coordination of
both eyes, I have adapted to calculate depth algorithmically in my mind. This
often leads to double vision and the illusion of depth where there is none (and
also causes me to bump into the furniture a lot when I’m tired).



Ironically, this made it impossible for me to perceive the images hidden in the
“Magic Eye” series that became popular in my childhood (immortalized, of course,
on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld.) The “unfocused” or “blurry” vision required to
witness the illusion was my everyday reality, and I would give my tiny self a
headache staring at those psychedelic color fields and willing them to take
form.

It’s an experience that has stuck with me as I’ve developed my art practice
working with computer graphics and analog video techniques. My new series,
Strabismus, explores illusions of depth generated through digital video
synthesis and analog time displacement.

Each work in the series aims to convey my own unique experience of depth – no
crossed eyes required. I approached the creation of the work as a generative
system, with my own personal optical algorithm and internal artistic feedback
loop (a BIG computer) serving as the essential spice of randomness. The
aesthetics emerged, no doubt, thanks to a year investigating and luxuriating in
the work of Op Art pioneers like Bridget Riley, Yaacov Agam and Victor Vasarely.



This work evolved directly out of Temporale, my first long-form series editioned
on the blockchain. Both projects distort the interlacing of analog video signal,
where alternating bands of information yield motion. By directly manipulating
this native aspect of the medium, I am able to weave together multiple timelines
into a potent fusion of the temporal and the spatial.

Where Temporale channeled textural material video through this distortion to
capture Time in a still image, Strabismus channels flat color motion through the
distortion to conjure Depth out of Time.

I see each of these two series as independent yet undeniably related. I have
always loved my own fluidity in moving between modes in my work, from the
figurative to the abstract, the narrative to the expressionistic. But these two
series reflect a new maturity, a desire to dig deeper and manifest my ideas on a
greater scale than ever before. I remain as playful as ever, but am delighting
in flexing my creative muscles.
Contract address
0x391f5DcFf76fBD0827369949A630...8f05

Blockchain
Ethereum

Token standard
ERC-721

Series Size
100

Creator royalty
10%

Mint vector ID
0x922a70e7899cf263d430006d56d69424d1ef850c508e2af681d0029f7f9afe1b

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