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The Mirror's Echo operates under a dual license: open-source (AGPL-3.0) for non-commercial use, with a separate commercial license available for exhibitions, installations, and institutional contexts. Exhibition licenses and institutional partnerships support the continued evolution of networked digital art practices. Artist/Technical: kristabluedoor@gmail.com Curatorial/Institutional: chaoscontemporarycraft@gmail.com

My physical work is largely comprised of watercolor crayon and reductive wax paintings on decorative plate glass, as well as intricate sculptures made from found objects and junk store items. With both mediums, I’ve sought to represent aesthetic over-stimulation that leads to expansiveness of imagination and wonder, much like that experienced in childhood when one visits a candy shop. As a child, I had a strong desire to see all colors and textures at once, including colors never seen before. With each project, I set out to re-capture this feeling of simulated desire and satisfaction. I believe that this desire to satiate our hunger for wonderment with consumerist impulses is innately human, and I hope to bring this incongruence to light with my new works in virtual reality. Virtual environments composed of my paintings, photogrammetric replicas of original works and kaleidoscopic reflections will further enforce feelings of overstimulation and surreality, while calling to mind Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra: “It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real (Baudrillard).” Here, the copy that has been reproduced beyond recognition replaces the real, much like our childhood sense of desire for the fantastic becomes replaced by consumerism, and our capacity for wonder and limitations of reality constrict. The wholly contained virtual viewing environment references Plato’s Cave, or concept of a limited and shrinking reality which merely provides distorted reflections of what is, and a fraction of a sliver of a window into the expansive nature and possibilities within our world: “In every way, then, such prisoners would recognize as reality nothing but the shadows of those artificial objects (Plato).” Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994. Plato. Republic, The Allegory of the Cave, VII 514 a, 2 to 517 a. 7 Trans. Thomas Sheehan

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KRISTA FAIST New Media Artist | Represented by Chaos Contemporary Craft kristabluedoor@gmail.com SELECT PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS 2026 Wonderball, projections / live visuals, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH 2025 Wanderlights, interactive light installation, Columbus Dept. of Parks and Rec, Columbus OH 2025 Portals, ArtsFest, Columbus OH 2025 Nocturne Grove, commission, Dawes Arboretum, Newark OH 2025 Mirror’s Echo, browser-based interactive installation, Chaos Contemporary Craft 2025 Ebullient Currents, interactive commission, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus OH 2024 Energy and Grace, architectural light installation, BLINK Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH 2024 Liken Lichens, installation, Ohio State University, Columbus OH 2024 Alley Islands, installation, Blockfort, Columbus OH 2021 Mural ReMix, projection mapping, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS 2026 CURRENTS New Media x RELAY, Ambient Intelligence, Santa Fe NM 2026 Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore MD 2026 AI Rising Conference, invited showcase, demonstration, Columbus OH 2025 GDEX (Game Developer Conference + Expo), invited artist, Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus OH 2025 AI Rising Conference, invited showcase, demonstration, Columbus OH 2025 AI Symposium, Ringling College of Arts, Sarasota FL 2025 Ebullient Witness, GH36 Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland 2024 Haptic Hearts, 934 Gallery, Columbus OH 2023 Eighth Edition, Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Barcelona, España 2023 Spring Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus OH 2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine, New Museum of Contemporary and Moving Arts, Köln, Deutschland 2022 Ohio Shorts, Wexner Center, Columbus OH 2022 The Form that Remains, ROY G BIV, Columbus OH 2022 Getaway, Seventh Son, Columbus OH 2022 Live Vids for Covid, Fuse Factory, Columbus OH 2021 VRE Fest, Iconia (Roma, Milano, Torino, Bologna, Palermo), Italia 2021 Plug and Play, Wild Goose, Columbus OH 2021 Pedestal, Dream Clinic, Columbus OH RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS 2026 Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisboa, Portugal 2026 CAST (Contemporary Art & Sound Technologies), dadaLab, Austin TX 2025 Daydream Intensive, TouchDesigner development cohort 2024 Fuse Factory, artist in residence, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus OH 2023 TouchDesigner Artist Showcase, Grey Area, featured artist for Mandelbrot generative visualization, San Francisco CA TECHNICAL SKILLS Software: TouchDesigner, Unity, Unreal Engine, Stable Diffusion, Blender Programming: Python, C#, C++, Google Apps Script Traditional: Oil painting, encaustic on glass, found object sculpture EDUCATION 2023 MFA, Visual Arts, magna cum laude, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH 2020 BA, Digital Media and Design, Penn State University, State College, PA 2018 Academia Español Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica (Spanish immersion)