The rock forms of, A FALLEN PIXEL, represent a complete cycle of anonymous and physically distributed production.  I was interested in the ways current technologies aid in the realization of purely imagined things and wanted to circumscribe the physical realization of these digital apparitions.  I like that an anonymous other would have sat in front of a screen and used managed electronic impulses within the machine to virtually manifest what in many ways could be considered a hallucination.  Networks of metal culled up from the earth connect me to them and allow me to download the virtual product of their labor for free.  I sent that product over the same network to a CNC machine that translated the virtual into physical reality.  The marks of the hand left in the plaster covering reflect a human interface layer that is becoming increasingly obsolete.  The paint ‘re-skins’ the physical object in the way the screen ‘skins’ bio-digital translation.

Rhonda Holberton is an Oakland-based artist.  Her multimedia installations make use of digital and interactive technologies integrated into traditional methods of art production. Rhonda Holberton received her MFA from Stanford University and her BFA from the California College of the Arts. She is currently a lecturer in experimental media at Stanford University. Holberton was a CAMAC Artist in Residence at Marnay-sur-Seine, France and awarded a Fondation Ténot Fellowship, Paris, France. Holberton has recently exhibited at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, FIFI Projects Mexico City, & the San Francisco Arts Commission, and The Berkeley Art Center.