“Electric Sheep”

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Electric Sheep is a video installation that provides viewers with a unique audio-visual experience as they watch an octopus make its way through glass tubing. Under such close observation the octopus becomes oddly sensuous as it writhes and squeezes through the confined space. The image is both disturbing and beautiful, a sensation that is underscored by the accompanying soundtrack, Wrecking Ball by Emmylou Harris, in which romance and love are coupled with suggestions of fear and destruction.

Amy Globus debuted electric sheep as part of Future Noir a group exhibition organized by Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY. The exhibition was inspired by Syd Mead’s set designs for Blade Runner.  Amy Globus derived the title for electric sheep from Philip K. Dick’s 1968 science fiction book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which was adapted into the science fiction cult film Blade Runner.

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Amy Globus received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University, New York, New York and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. She was born in New York City in 1976 where she currently resides. Globus works with video and sculpture.

In 2003, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Fellowship Award. Solo exhibitions of her work include Electronic Sheep at Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Sculpting in Time at D’Amelio Terras in New York, and Electric Sheep at The Nevada Museum of Art Media Gallery in Reno.