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The uncanny valley effect emerges when our perceptions collide with the otherworldly, disturbing us with an eerie sense of familiarity that exposes our fragile and incomplete understanding of reality. However, we project this phenomenon onto our surroundings through our own creations, often without fully anticipating the consequences until they materialize. As of April 2023, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, NVDA, GOOGL, BRK.B, TSLA, and META are the largest S&P 500 index constituents by weight. Being tech or tech-adjacent companies, they are also dependent on cobalt, 70% of which is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This involves exploitative labor practices, with both children and adults working long hours for slave wages, facing exposure to toxic, radioactive minerals, and the threat of mining collapses. Despite the optics of such practices, digital modernity relies on this labor, leading to a glaring disparity between the benefits of technological progress and the human suffering involved. Consumers and stakeholders are cursed with endemic cognitive dissonance, confronted with their own contributions to perpetuating these unethical supply chains. Our creations have unprecedented impacts on perceptions beyond humanity. The Australian Jewel Beetle nearly went extinct after the males mistook a beer bottle's design for the opposite sex, an oversight that could not have been easily anticipated by its manufacturers. This small example pales in comparison to the broader implications of our actions in the psychological vacuum that separates all life. The interconnectedness of our choices and their consequences is a sobering realization, urging us to consider the broader implications of our technological advancements and the responsibility we hold for their effects on both human society and the natural world.
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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 18 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Sam is a Boston-based artist who graduated from Cornell with a BFA and Architecture minor. He uses paint, sculpture, and digital media to explore the relationship of perception and creation. By invoking the perpetual human experience of searching for clarity from ambiguity, he honors a universal struggle to build meaning. Through closed eyes, one sees “eigengrau,” German for intrinsic grey. This color condition — a subtly shifting collage of faded hues overwhelmed by darkness — is an experience that is universal yet ineffable. It is out of this visual uncertainty that every dream and many great ideas emerge. Sam has appropriated this paradoxical state as an underlying framework for the conceptual and physical development of his art. From drawing out spontaneous imagery in the black backgrounds of his paintings, to the uncanny forms that emerge to illuminate his sculptural projections, eigengrau is the nexus uniting Sam's practice. Sam’s art has been featured in Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Perime Art Gallery, Miami Art Week, and one of 1stDibs' first cryptoart exhibitions. Additionally, he was accepted into the 2020 Best of SUNY and SUNY Chancellor’s Gallery Exhibitions. Sam was selected for Cornell’s 2020 Anderson Ranch Painting Scholarship, a \art grant, BitBasel’s CryptoArt for Impact and Innovation Challenge, and the 2020 Edith Adams & Walter King Stone Award in recognition of work filled with promise in advance of his thesis year. He had the honor of being selected for the first digital art collection on the moon, contained in a nickel disc aboard the US' first return mission in over 50 years in February 2024. Sam has collaborated with Ponce Neuroscience Lab at Harvard University as part of his thesis exhibition, and continues to partner with their team.
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