Vanishing Point(s)

With Dr. Hugh Denard A large-scale installation conjoining the principles of ancient Roman fresco art with digital virtual worlds in the idiom of stained glass. Documentation URL: www.takeo.org/nspace/sl005/ Vanishing Point(s) is a site-specific art installation by Michael Takeo Magruder and Dr. Hugh Denard that explores creative collisions and collaborative possibilities between contemporary art discourse and humanities research. Commissioned for Digital Humanities 2010 for the Great Hall of the Grade I listed King's Building (Strand, London) created in 1831 by English architect Sir Robert Smirke (1781-1867), the project conjoins Takeo's long-standing use of computational processes and virtual environments as frameworks for artistic expression and Denard's studies of the playfully illusionistic and fantastical worlds of Roman fresco art.