Sonia in Time

Sonia Landy SheridanWW-1970-116307

1970·Electrophotographic (3M Color-in-Color) print, from the portfolio "Photographs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago" (1975)·Image/paper: 21.5 × 21.5 cm (8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.4 × 27.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

<p>In 1970, 3M Company invited Sonia Landy Sheridan, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, to their labs to explore the artistic possibilities of their new Color-in-Color, a photocopy machine that could produce instant images. This machine was the first of its kind. Throughout the ’70s, Sheridan spent time learning its ins and outs.</p> <p>Sheridan made this print by feeding the same image through the Color-in-Color machine multiple times to generate deep black and gray tones. The repeated copying also created a blurred impression of Sheridan’s face, which appears above the more detailed rendering below. A book Sheridan made documenting her time in residence at 3M appears in a case in this gallery.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1970
Medium: Electrophotographic (3M Color-in-Color) print, from the portfolio "Photographs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago" (1975)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 21.5 × 21.5 cm (8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.4 × 27.5 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Sonia Landy Sheridan

Artist

Sonia Landy Sheridan

Mixed Media

Sonia Landy Sheridan, known as Sonia Sheridan, was an American artist, academic and researcher, who in 1969 founded the Generative Systems research program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was honorary editor of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Sheridan had received awards from numerous institutions, including the Guggenheim Foundation in 1973 for Photography and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Newark, NJ, USA

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