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Abstract
Chess is a collaborative public new-media art project completed in 2008 with the participation of over 70 people in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
Erik Sanner uses new media to create what he calls “moving paintings”—installations in which dynamic video is projected onto prepared surfaces such as oil paintings. Each of his moving paintings is constantly changing (like the universe we inhabit), providing the viewer with a unique experience every time it is viewed.
Over the past decade, his work has been exhibited in a number of solo and collaborative exhibitions, as well as in several group shows in New York and Tokyo. He maintains a blog called “paintings that move” (http://eriksanner.blogspot.com) where he shares much of the creative process often hidden in the artist's studio.
He was recently awarded a Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant for his public art project “How to Enjoy Traffic Cones,” which includes traffic cone viewing tours and collaborative art-making by artists and nonartists alike.
Sanner's goal in all his work is to expand the definition of painting by utilizing technology.