{"name":"Origins of the Universe Dimensioning","description":"In this body of work, I reference both Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (Origin of the World), and the contemporary fad of 3D printing sculptural holders for smartphones. Courbet's painting was scandalous in the nineteenth century and even in the twenty-first century postings of the painting have led to Facebook account suspensions. Conversely, on certain sites 3D-printed smartphone holders of the sexualized female body proliferate. Nonetheless, females' contributions to physics, engineering, computer science, and art receive more and more equal billing. In my version of an origin narrative, I have expanded Courbet's \"world\" to a \"universe,\" a universe positioned between a womxn's legs, looping videos of the cosmos on an iPhone. This does not signify biological determinism but represents the power of the \"female archetype\" across scientific and cultural realms. A quote by Sadie Plant sums it up. \"When computers became the miniaturized circuits of silicon chips, it was women who assembled them . . . when computers were virtually real machines, women wrote the software on which they ran. And when computer was a term applied to flesh and blood workers, the bodies which composed them were female.\"\n\nRegarding the VR experience, translating the work from a physical sculpture to virtual space inspired me to think on a macro and micro level, where the \"object\" can be entered as monolithic and mythic body and site, (an homage to Niki de St Phalle's large scale sculptural installation \"Han,\" 1966). Upon entry the micro-object sculpture, at \"human/avatar\" scale, alludes to the original presentation of the work in physical reality. Additionally, there is a spatial audio composition playing in the space, entitled \"In a Kingdom Full of Planets.\" It is a poetry collaboration between myself and the Masterpiece AI Poem generator in homage to the universe.\n\nOrigins of the Universe Dimensioning, 2018-2021, includes a digital video, a sculpture (sent to the collector upon purchase) and a web VR experience (the link is provided at purchase). \n\nDetails: \n3D printed sculpture (polyamide print with copper plating) + smartphone with video,  13.4\" x 5\" x 10\" + custom pedestal and vitrine, pedestal 42”h x 17.5”l x 14”w | vitrine: 17”h x 17.5”l x 14”w\nVideo: 1920 x 1080 pixels; 3 min 11 seconds (looping video)","image":"ipfs://Qmb9oC7VEWLUus6ZraMzSuUWmHtNuCsoF9R3k4FtHesGBd","external_url":"https://www.1stdibs.com/nft/art/origins-universe-dimensioning/id-n_rmdBJqjzP2/","animation_url":"https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dist/nft/Carla+Gannis/OriginsOfTheUniverse_CarlaGannis_2018_1_display.mp4","created_year":"2018","archival_url":"","attributes":[{"trait_type":"edition","value":"1/1"},{"trait_type":"medium","value":"MP4 Digital Video, 3D Printed Sculpture, Smart Phone with Video, Custom Pedestal and Vitrine"},{"trait_type":"year created","value":"2018"},{"trait_type":"category","value":"art"},{"trait_type":"artist","value":"Carla Gannis"},{"trait_type":"Preventive Conservation Notes for Born-Digital Components","value":""},{"trait_type":"Display","value":""},{"trait_type":"Copyright","value":""},{"trait_type":"Transfer of Ownership","value":""}],"media":{"url":"ipfs://Qmb9oC7VEWLUus6ZraMzSuUWmHtNuCsoF9R3k4FtHesGBd","web_url":"https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dist/nft/Carla+Gannis/OriginsOfTheUniverse_CarlaGannis_2018_1_display.mp4","poster_frame_url":"https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dist/nft/Carla+Gannis/OriginsOfTheUniverse_CarlaGannis_2018_1+POSTER.png","mime_type":"video/mp4","dimensions":"1920x1080","duration":191,"video_thumb":"https://a.1stdibscdn.com/dist/nft/Carla+Gannis/OriginsOfTheUniverse_CarlaGannis_2018_1_thumb.mp4"}}