St. Louis artist Van McElwee’s Time Fork: World B (2020) is currently on exhibit at Laumeier Sculpture Park in Sunset Hills, Missouri. McElwee’s Augmented Reality (AR) installation is part of the park’s 2021 thematic exploration, The Future is Present: Art and Global Change, which runs through October 20, 2021. The park is displaying artist projects covering such topics as environmental crisis, tech waste, deforestation, astronomical phenomena, and alternative realities. McElwee’s electronic and video exhibitions have found audiences in London, Vienna, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, and other world capitals. His body of media art includes over one hundred single-channel video works, installations, and web projects. McElwee’s grants and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Independent Production Fund, a Regional Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and a travel grant from the government of India. McElwee’s work has been exhibited extensively...
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September 01 2021
Future Is Present: A Conversation with Van McElwee
Don Corrigan
Don Corrigan
Don Corrigan is an award-winning journalist and academic who has published six books on nature and the environment. His most recent book is Nuts About Squirrels: The Rodents That Conquered Popular Culture (2019), which examines media treatment of squirrel characters using the concepts in Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. He was recently inducted into the St. Louis Media Hall of Fame.
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Afterimage (2021) 48 (3): 25–34.
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Don Corrigan; Future Is Present: A Conversation with Van McElwee. Afterimage 1 September 2021; 48 (3): 25–34. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2021.48.3.25
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