The Mirror's Echo operates as an unlimited edition under open-source principles (AGPL-3.0), ensuring accessibility while sustaining ongoing development. Exhibition licenses and institutional partnerships support the continued evolution of networked digital art practices. Artist/Technical: kristabluedoor@gmail.com Curatorial/Institutional: chaoscontemporarycraft@gmail.com

Krista Faist creates experimental new media art in Columbus, OH Home New Projects Statement AI Animation Virtual Reality Interactive Sculptures 2D Multimedia Curriculum Vitae Experimental New Media Art For inquiries, contact Chaos Contemporary Craft

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Represented by Chaos Contemporary Craft Education 2023 MFA, Visual Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH 2020 BA, Digital Media and Design, Penn State State College, PA 2018 Academia Espanol Nicoya, Nicoya, Costa Rica (Spanish, Spanish History) Exhibitions 2025 Ebullient Witness , GH36 Gallery, Berlin Germany 2025 Wanderlights, Columbus Department of Parks and Recreation, Columbus OH 2025 Nocturne Grove, Dawes Arboretum commission, Newark OH 2025 AI Symposium , Ringling College of Arts, Sarasota FL 2025 Mirror’s Echo , Chaos Contemporary Craft, Columbus OH 2025 Portals, ArtsFest, Columbus OH 2024 Haptic Hearts 934 Gallery, Columbus OH 2024 Blink, Cincinnati, OH 2024 Touchdesigner Showcase, Gray Area, San Francisco CA 2024 Fuse Factory Artist in Residence, Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center, Columbus OH 2023 Eighth Edition , Barcelona Planet Film Festival, Spain EU 2023 Sp ring Juried Exhibition , Ohio Art League, Columbus OH 2023 Alley Islands , Blockfort, Columbus OH 2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine , The New Museum of Contemporary and Moving Arts, Cologne Germany 2022 Ohio Shorts , The Wexner Center, Columbus OH 2022 The Form that Remains , ROY G BIV, Columbus OH 2022 Getaway , Seventh Son, Columbus OH2022 Getaway , Seventh Son, Columbus OH 2022 Live Vids for Covid , Fuse Factory, Columbus OH 2021 Mural ReMix , 934 Gallery, Columbus OH 2021 VRE Fest , Iconia, Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, and Palermo, Italy EU 2021 Plug and Play , Wild Goose, Columbus, Ohio 2021 Pedestal , Dream Clinic, Columbus OH 2021 Wonderball, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH 2012 Untitled Pop-Up Exhibition curated by James Frederick Rose, New York, New York 2011 The Square , The Wail, Portland OR 2010 Quick Sketches , Metro Gallery, Baltimore MD 2009 Meet the Members , The Hexagon, Baltimore MD Experience 2020-Present Self Employed, Arts Studios Property Director 2015-2020 Donations Coordinator, YWCA Columbus, Columbus OH 2013-2015 Americorps Member, YWCA Family Center, Columbus OH 2011-2013 Title Researcher, ACS Title and Closing Services, Gahanna OH 2010-2011 Program Director / General Manager, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers NY 2009-2010 Booking Manager /Curator, The Wail, Portland OR 2007-2009 Administrative Assistant, The Book Thing/Free Book Store, Baltimore MD 2007-2009 Art Teacher, Art With a Heart, Baltimore MD Professional Service 2017-Present Organizing Committee, GivebackHack, Columbus OH 2015-Present Volunteer, Fuse Factory, Columbus OH 2009-2010 Mentor, Pear, Portland OR 2009-2010 Co-Founder, Station North Organizers, Baltimore MD 2008-2009 Founding Member, Hexagon Arts Collective, Baltimore MD 2003-2003 Internship, Art for a Child’s Safe America, Columbus OH Skills TouchDesigner Python Unity C++ C# Stable Diffusion

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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