Contributing Artists - Nancy Moskin

SPIRITED RUINS

Title: Arches

Artist's Bio:

Nancy Moskin works as an artist in both digital media and traditional materials. She has created pieces employing animation, digital imaging, blown glass, mosaic, photography and video. Her work has been shown at the Glass Art Society annual conference, the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University, the California Polytechnic Gallery and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

She has been teaching Computer Animation at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts for almost a decade and Computer Graphics at Middlesex Community College since 1997. Her past teaching experience has involved Photoshop, multimedia, graphic design and glassblowing.

Her free-lance graphic design business encompasses print pieces, web site design, and animation for television and the web.

Ms. Moskin holds a M.F.A. degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and a B.A. degree from Connecticut College.

Artist's Statement:

There is something both heroic and a bit perverse in forcing entropy to reverse itself, to bring order out of chaos, no matter how briefly. This is the role of civilization as well as my intention. Arthur C. Clarke said that science, sufficiently advanced, appears to be magic. My ruins come to life, changing form and function in a manner that appears magical, but might merely be the result of malfunctioning machinery or a flickering power supply. While they are being created, history and art offer infinite possibilities. Similarly, the blocks and arches could arrange themselves in an infinite series of configurations. The ones we see are perhaps just the random survivors of eons of decay.

Technical Description:

This piece exists entirely in virtual space.

Additional works by Nancy in Spirited Ruins:
Arthropod

She worked with Harriet Brisson to create a CG model of her real-life fountain:

and created a set of beercans as "earthwork" for Erica Adams :