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OBC’s interview with BBC Farsi aired earlier this year. This is part 1.

Proposal for a Public Tumor This piece is now in a great little show at the CUNY Graduate Center called Corporealities, referring to the fact that human beings and other organisms are not merely thinking things but are also embodied in myriad ways. In conjunction with a seminar on embodiment supported by the Mellon Foundation, The Committee on Interdisciplinary Science Studies is hosting an exhibition featuring artists whose work deals with body parts, body modification, beauty, disease, sexuality, and biological processes. Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave (and 34th Street), Suite 5307

Proposal for a Public Tumor

This piece is now in a great little show at the CUNY Graduate Center called Corporealities, referring to the fact that human beings and other organisms are not merely thinking things but are also embodied in myriad ways. In conjunction with a seminar on embodiment supported by the Mellon Foundation, The Committee on Interdisciplinary Science Studies is hosting an exhibition featuring artists whose work deals with body parts, body modification, beauty, disease, sexuality, and biological processes.

Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave (and 34th Street), Suite 5307

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"Mix3-Shaman-MRI-Remix_Segment_1"

Here is a 2-minute snippet of the .5 hr audio mix using the MRI session+the Shamanic resonance session. It played in the meditation room with lit up 3D wall sconces… there will be more shamanism in our near future…

The Meditation Source Room: Two 3D plastic prints of tumors (printed at NYU’s AMS), mounted as sconces, with led lights inserted in the wall. The sound is a mix of an MRI machine (with the technician occasionally asking ‘are you doing ok?’) and a shamanic visualization / extraction session - which have eerily similar aural qualities. There are three ways of ‘seeing inside’ that are gathered in this room: the MRI, the shamanic and the viewer’s own meditation.

The Meditation Source Room: Two 3D plastic prints of tumors (printed at NYU’s AMS), mounted as sconces, with led lights inserted in the wall. The sound is a mix of an MRI machine (with the technician occasionally asking ‘are you doing ok?’) and a shamanic visualization / extraction session - which have eerily similar aural qualities. There are three ways of ‘seeing inside’ that are gathered in this room: the MRI, the shamanic and the viewer’s own meditation.

Extractions Bronze Sculpture

Extractions

Bronze Sculpture

Extractions Bronze sculpture

Extractions

Bronze sculpture

Ruins (Carcinomas) - 2011 - Installation at Eyebeam Window Gallery Depicting fallen urban landscapes over-run with tumors, these sculptures highlight breast cancer’s links to carcinogens in our everyday environment. The grey ‘support material’ used by 3D printers to build up a form is generally meant to be removed. But we used Eyebeam’s 3D printer in such a way as to maximize the architectural form of the printer’s support structures and then hacked at the structures to partially reveal the white tumor embedded.

Ruins (Carcinomas) - 2011 - Installation at Eyebeam Window Gallery

Depicting fallen urban landscapes over-run with tumors, these sculptures highlight breast cancer’s links to carcinogens in our everyday environment. The grey ‘support material’ used by 3D printers to build up a form is generally meant to be removed. But we used Eyebeam’s 3D printer in such a way as to maximize the architectural form of the printer’s support structures and then hacked at the structures to partially reveal the white tumor embedded.

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Casting a tumor sculpture at the Modern Art Foundry, Queens, NY

OBC interview on The Stupid Cancer Show

The Stupid Cancer show is multi-award-winning international talk radio webcast hosted by Lisa Bernhard – former Entertainment Correspondent for FOX News and former Deputy Editor of TV Guide – and i[2]y Founder/CEO Matthew Zachary.

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Investment at the Modern Art Foundry, Queens, NY