Timeline of (art)n History

2010

•PET Study II was featured on the winter cover of Issues in Science and Technology, from the collection of National Academy of Sciences

2009

•Retrospective for Ellen Sandor and (art)n at Zhou B Art Center, Concepts of Construction including new commissioned works for Murphy/Jahn Architects
•U.S. Researchers awarded Nobel Prize for their discovery of 'telomeres' and is the first time the prize had gone to more than one woman

2008

•(art)n collaborates with Claudia Hart and Carla Gannis, with works featured at Kasia Kay Projects Gallery
•No Fumare por Favore included in A Mind at Play at The Art Institute of Chicago

2007

•(art)n included in The Intelligent Design Project at The Museum of New Art and Intelligent Design Project III at Kasia Kay Projects Gallery

2006

•Commissioned by State of Illinois Art in Architecture Program to create PHSCologram sculpture Universal Atmospheres for new NCSA building at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
•Retrospective for Ellen Sandor and (art)n at IIT: 3D Pixels Realized 1982-2006

2005

•Commissioned by Nuveen Investments

2004

•Retrospective (art)n Virtual Illusion 1994-2004/Pixels in Perspective at Digital Art Museum, Berlin

2003

•Telomeres Project on Imminent Immortality featured in Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science at The Graduate Center Art Gallery, City University of New York for the anniversary of the discovery of DNA

2002

•(art)n collaborates with Martyl on a PHSCologram of the ‘Doomsday Clock’

2001

•Commissioned by City of Chicago, Public Art Program and Department of Aviation to create Battle of Midway Memorial for Midway Airport, Chicago
•No Fumare por Favore is included in Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection at the High Museum of Art
•(art)n creates Telomeres Project on Imminent Mortality, first shown at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles

2000

•(art)n collaborates with Karl Wirsum
•Galerie Darthea Speyer in Paris shows No Fumare por Favore
•(art)n is included in Paris in 3D: From Stereoscopy to Virtual Reality 1850-2000, Musée Carnavalet in Paris

1999

•Developed IGram process for creating PHSColograms within a Virtual Reality CAVE, published by IEEE Society
•(art)n collaborates with TJ McLeish on Townhouse Revisited, an architectural competition sponsored by the Graham Foundation, receiving an honorable mention

1998

•US Art in Embassies Program shows No Fumare por Favore in Bonn, Germany and AIDS Virus, Third Edition in Zimbabwe
•Commissioned by CameraWorks for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Out of Science: Imaging/Imaging Science, the first contemporary art exhibition of art and science works since the museum's collaboration in 1967 with John Szarkowski, Museum of Modern Art and University of California Berkeley that represented hundreds of images that "exist in the world but cannot be seen by the human eye without the aid of photography," focusing on form rather than function, "that is, scientific or artistic" in purpose.
•PET Study/Reconstructing Rodin is included on the cover of Your Future Self by Hank Whittemore

1997

•Commissioned by A Living Memorial to the Holocaust - Museum of Jewish Heritage and Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
•First collaborations with Chicago Imagist, Ed Paschke: No Fumare por Favore and Primondo
•(art)n adds interactive music to PHSColograms, commissioned for DIVIDED WE SPEAK at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

1996

•Commissioned by the San Diego Supercomputing Center and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

1995

•(art)n collaborates with Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation on a tryptic of Auschwitz Barracks
•Oskar Friedl Gallery curates one of the first exhibitions to include videogames with videogame icons produced by (art)n and videogame companies, reviewed by New Art Examiner

1994

•The first CT Angiography of the human brain is created as a PHSCologram from real patient data supplied by Picker International that led to the development of the epiView(tm) process in 1996 for creating PHSColograms in hospitals as a surgical tool for physicians

1993

•Works by (art)n included in The New Images, George Eastman International House of Photography
•(art)n's first website, featuring curated online galleries and exhibitions is launched under NCSA's Mosaic web browser, representing art historical images with PHSColograms and other digital media

1992

•’Rotated Computer Interleaving’ was developed as an improvement to show a smoother three-dimensional view of an object and could also include animation, awarded U.S. and International Patents, and published in Computers & Graphics
•Commissioned to create works for the Spanish Pavilion at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain

1991

•(art)n creates The Equation of Terror shown at SIGGRAPH and idmi, Lugano, Switzerland
•(art)n is featured in Beyond 2000, Sydney, Australia

1990

•Science in Depth, sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH travels to NASA AMes Research Center, Computer Museum and Museum of Science and Industry
•PHSColograms are featured on CNN and Wild Chicago
•(art)n is featured in EDUCOM Review, The Chicago Tribune Magazine and Leonardo

1989

•The ‘Stealth Negative Process’ was developed, creating a computer generated method for making PHSColograms entirely on the computer, awarded a US and International Patents and published in the SPIE Proceedings
•Ellen Sandor collaborates with scientists from NASA Ames Research Center and the Scripps Research Institute
•(art)n: Beautiful Stranger at Feature, Inc.
•(art)n is featured in Leonardo

1988

•PHSColograms by (art)n traveling exhibition sponsored by UMASS Arts Council at Rensselaer Union Shellnutt Gallery, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

1987

•The first computer generated three-dimensional image of the AIDS Virus is created for a PHSCologram, based on available scientific data published in Scientific American, and was included in PHSColograms at Fermilab Gallery and featured on the cover of Computer Graphics and Applications

1986

•Ellen Sandor collaborates with Larry Smarr, Donna Cox, George Francis and Ray Idazek to create a PHSCologram of the Etruscan Venus, a four-dimensional model first created at NCSA-National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1985

•The ‘Computer-Camera Technique’ was developed to feature computer-generated content in three dimensions, inputting frames captured with a video camera

1984

•PHSCologram '83 is shown on Lake Shore Drive and reviewed in New Art Examiner

1983

•Ellen Sandor forms (art)n and coins the term 'PHSCologram,' an acronym for Photography, Holography, Sculpture and Computer Graphics
•Ellen Sandor meets Tom DeFanti and Dan Sandin from the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago for a showing of PHSCologram '83 on Wacker Drive that inspires them to add interactivity to three-dimensional environments as the Virtual Reality CAVE