American multi-media artist Rosemarie Fiore composes her large-scale installation work from found machinery like waffle irons, windshield wipers, pinball machines , and old amusement park rides. She also experiments with pyrotechnic debris, guns, and air fresheners, bringing out the beauty hidden behind dangerous, uncomfortable, or overwhelming content. The results are colorful, and usually crazy, photographs, paintings, and videos.In 2002, at the forefront of a future where video games and code-based art would hang in galleries, she photographed frames from war games culled from game studios like Atari, Centuri, and Taito. The pictures (above) were taken with a long exposure, concentrating the time-based game experience into a single frame, thereby capturing the complex patterns that are easily overlooked while playing the game in real-time.Whether she’s testing the limits of color and heat, plotting Wile E. Coyotee’s long-awaited death with ceramics, or recovering intricate patterns that are hidden within machinery, Rosemarie Fiore constantly proves herself to be a multi-faceted visionary.
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