Chandelier With a Message

‘The End of an Era’ by Ian Burns is a chandelier of sixteen small monitors hanging from the ceiling, all displaying a live-feed image of a light bulb created by the "perversely archaic method of a camera obscura." By focusing on the ubiquity of the screen and our ever-more sedentary relationship to it, Burns’ work offers a brilliantly clear-sighted dissection of the mediated image and it’s role in propagating the fear, paranoia and paralysis of our post 9/11 world. Born in Newcastle, Australia, Ian Burns currently lives and works in New York