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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Mark Esper
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 04:59:33 -0400 (EDT)
Mark Esper Mark Esper is an artist whose robotic works continue to fascinate; recent- ly, he has reworked a rotating sphere almost two feet in diameter which remains suspended in mid-air, due to the Bernoulli effect generated by a complex blower on the ground. The sphere has leds giving the semblance of rotating saucerian lights; it also has vanes for stabilization. Why here and now? Other than the sheer beauty of the work, another image of a sau- cer in mid-air; this one, however, is clearly tethered to the ground on its column of air. What if the sphere could generate its own Bernoulli effect? what if a sailboat might generate its own wind? The jury's not out on this one. http://www.asondheim.org/esper.mov (If there's abjection, it's in the turbulence generated by the blower. But there's no liquidity. Recall the Flatwoods Monster blew 'oil' on anyone who came near; the obvious hoax probably blew oil. By and large, though, saucer sightings and contacts remain remarkably dry - remarkable, given the abject slime and drool that pours from so many movie aliens. Is this a familiar of our imagination, or the true world's offering of the repeti- tion of things, even within the alien? The jury's out on this one.)