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Charles Atlas
American, born 1949
2012
A twelve-minute silent color video projection in which Atlas animates oversized numerals into a slow-moving choreography, inviting viewers to experience numbers as physical, temporal events.
What hits you is the monumental scale—white digits towering across the wall interrupted by sharp vertical bands of neon green that pulse like mechanical shutters.
The piece extends Atlas’s investigation of video as performance by foregrounding typography and cinematic time, asking how digital displays and numerical rhythms shape contemporary perception.
Medium
Video (color, silent)
Dimensions
12 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Catherine Badomi Heckett
Accession
888.2014
Palette
Exhibitions
