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Our warehouse studio space is being demolished in the spring, and we are showing our two works, Quanta and Dissolution, for the last time for four nights February 16, 17, 23 and 24.
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The Last Showings of Quanta
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Quåntå
Quanta is a 20-minute immersive installation that explores the nature of consciousness on a universal scale. Created over 4,000 hours by artist and technologist Anson Fogel, the installation combines video, sound, lighting, lasers, moving water, scent, audience-responsive projection, and kinetic sculpture. Quanta eschews any digital slickness and the hard edges of many immersive installations with natural materials gathered from Fogel’s ranch in the high desert of Utah—wild grass, wool, and an entire tree. The installation was originally inspired by a 1960s paper by theoretical physicist Dr. Freeman Dyson that contemplates a universe where consciousness becomes embedded in all matter to assure survival over massive time scales.
Quanta was prototyped in Fogel’s barn in remote Southern Utah during the long days of the pandemic, incorporating natural elements found on the property. The installation was completed in early 2022 in Fogel’s studio warehouse in Salt Lake City, UT. He began showing it quietly to friends, and word spread quickly, with private showings drawing hundreds of eager visitors waiting three or more hours to see it.
QUANTA Installation Notes
Quanta is now available for installation. The 20-minute piece is a purpose-built assembly that seats seven people, and may be installed in any windowless, climate-controlled space at least 25 feet wide, 35 feet deep and 16 feet tall, with 60 amps of 120V power. The installation makes use of theatrical fog, and thus access to outside exhaust air is desirable, but not necessary. Plumbed water access is not necessary but makes maintenance easier. Noise levels are 85-90 db SPL, suggesting sound isolation work be done as part of installation for most spaces.
Playback is fully automated and can be run by one non-technical staffer, while maintenance requires relatively simple training, with one-to-three hours a week of effort under heavy use. Installation can be undertaken by the artist and two skilled assistants in seven-to-ten working days. Most components are off-the-shelf items common in the AV and staging businesses, so maintenance is common and standard. Detailed 3D drawings and specifications are available on request.
A®tist Statement(!)
I am half artist, half engineer. My work holds these two identities in tension, and often explores the interrelation of technology and consciousness. My work has taken the form of large format still photography, music composition, film, and most recently, immersive installation. In every medium, I am fascinated by the power of place—of landscape, especially, of wildness—to shape consciousness the way wind carves caverns into sandstone and rivers course through bedrock to create canyons.
For most of my 50 years on this planet, I’ve lived in the vast, spare, rugged landscapes of the American West, places that at once can make a person feel both infinitesimally inconsequential and an essential part of the harmonious largeness of the universe. In any medium, my work seeks to harness technology to create artworks that offer viewers this layered paradox of feeling.
Anson Fogel Bio
Most well known as a film director, Anson Fogel has worked as an audio engineer, stage lighting designer, video editor, cinematographer, and architectural designer. He also sold thousands of hits of acid at Metallica concerts during the summer of 1989. In his most recent artworks, Fogel draws from the considerable breadth of his background to generate immersive installations that combine complex sensory technologies to create a sense of wonder like that felt by those concertgoers.
As a filmmaker, Fogel is known for combining an emotive, often musical style with a strong sense of place. His work directing Apple’s 2019 Earth Day campaign was nominated for a National Emmy, and he has directed global campaigns for Volkswagen, The North Face, and numerous other brands. He has won over 20 film festival and advertising awards, including The Grand Prize and three other awards at Banff, The Grand Prize at New Zealand, The Fowler Award at Mountainfilm, The Camera Prizes at Trento and Gratz, and had two narrative short film premieres at major film festivals. He lives on a remote ranch in southern Utah with his writer/director wife, Alexandra Fuller, and their 13-year old daughter.
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