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Hector
by wyshock

In Greek Mythology, Hector was the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan War, according to Homer. Homer called him "the tamer of horses" and dedicates the last lines of the Illiad to Hector's funeral- he had been killed by the avenging Achilles.

This piece is a video installation that is a projected dyptych contrasted next to Pandora. Pandora was the first woman, created as punishment for man. Homer concludes the Iliad with Hector's funeral, a noble Trojan prince and warrior. A figure investigates a dreamlike environment with references to cloning and nuclear weaponry. Technology is presented as a transitional violent dance. A form was drawn in the computer and animated to reproduce a cyclic formation. Fast arrangements of color from a variety of plants and species are projected onto the structures. Growth and the transfer of information through DNA are questioned as cloning occurs.

Edison "dancing girls" are appropriated into a Nuclear Holocaust. ( first succesful motion capture/ collaborated with Meuybridge) Their Dancing Women are juxtaposed with atomic bomb footage referring to births of technology.