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Sandor’s seven-year-old phscologram laboratory at the Illinois Institute of Technology is called (Art)n. Sandor, the founder and director of the lab, has an MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute; associate director Meyers (who hooked up with Sandor about 1987) has a bachelor’s in mathematics and is working on his MFA in electronic visualization at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It’s the combination of Sandor’s and Meyers’s disparate specialties that makes their creations, a marriage of art and scientific imaging, so unique.
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The black-and-white prints are then combined to create a color image on transparency film. This film is laminated onto the back of a Plexiglas sheet, and a “barrier screen” made of lithographic film is laminated to the front. When this sandwich is displayed in front of lights, the barrier screen blocks some of the light so that each of the viewer’s eyes sees a different image, creating the perception of three dimensions.
“Phscolograms have a mysterious quality about them which relies on technology for its own presence; yet they also have a spiritual, sensual quality about them,” says Kevin Maginnis, a graphic artist and art collector.
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