Ellen Sandor & (art)n

At (art)n, Paschke trades his paintbrush for a computer stylus to create hybrid, high-tech digital sculptures called PHSColograms in collaboration with Sandor and (art)n artists Stephan Meyers and Janine Fron. PHSColograms combine aspects of photography, holography, sculpture and computer graphics to create vibrant 3-D visualizations of such subjects as the AIDS virus, chaos math equations and the writer Franz Kafka. The kinetic illuminations shimmer on the walls of the cavernous, dimly lit laboratory and suggest a sci-fi pavilion of windows opening into alternate universes.

"These kinds of opportunities become challenges to take more risks, to stay on the edge," he says. "When the world applauds you, there's a tendency to become more and more conservative."
-"Spatial Effects: Ed Paschke + (art)n = the future" by Abigail Foerstner, Northshore, March 1998

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"No Fumare por Favore" has been successfully installed in the office of the Honorable John Kornblum, United States Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn). This outstanding work of art effectively communicates the richness of U.S. art and culture."
- Gwen Berlin, Director, Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State, 1997

"Even though Paschke's imagery translates well to this [medium] with his fluorescent colors and sense of movement, it's the sculptural quality that should be most interesting," she says. "PHSColograms are very, very sculptural." 
- Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1997