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On the evening of Saturday, November 16th, we proudly featured a collaboration between VR/AI/moving image artist Krista Faist, liquid moving image artist Michael Murtha, and Columbus alternative rock band A BEAUTIFUL VIEW as part of Krista’s 2024 Fuse Factory artist residency. Opening acts Chocolate Bunny Farm and Mon Roe.
Our 2024 artist-in-residence program is supported by the mediaThe Foundation, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus City Council, Columbus Mayor, and Franklin County Commissioners.
Photo credit: CG Ryan
About the artists:
VR/AI/moving image artist Krista’s 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, she has 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, she had a strong desire to see all colors and textures at once, including colors never seen before. With each project, she sets out to re-capture this feeling of simulated desire and satisfaction. She believes that this desire to satiate our hunger for wonderment with consumerist impulses is innately human, and her aim is to bring this incongruence to light via her immersive, audio reactive, and VR works.
“In times of strife, in times of corruption, in times of overwhelming vice; a precious few raise their noble hand aloft and shout to the sky, “Wait, and fear not, for the end is not near, it is far, far away”. -Winston Churchill. Few raise their hands as high and bawl as loudly as A BEAUTIFUL VIEW. They are fierce, they are brave, they are friendly, they are five: Richard the howling four-eyed bard of the microphone, Fritz & Ryan wielding heaven wrought strings of fire and of ice, Ivan master of all things low and honest, and Gunner young scourge of errant and insane drums. Together they shape and sculpt sounds for YOU. Together they are A BEAUTIFUL VIEW.