Artist: Robert Sherer x
Gift of the Artist
In the early 1990s, computers frequently received warnings about the threat of being infected by the nVIR computer virus. Geeks obsessed about vaccinating their computers, immunity, etc. It infuriated Sherer that this computer virus was threatening to upstage the AIDS epidemic that was wiping out his generation.
Sherer created a poster about it by overlapping DaVinci’s Proportions of Man with the nVIR warning. He obsessively photocopied and distributed the poster for over a year. Recently he rediscovered the image and turned it into a blood silkscreen. He then added linear information of anti-submarine mines, diving bells, the AIDS virus, satellites, an echo of fathoming the depths of the epidemic.
Bibliography
- Created: 2013
- Inventory Number: 3256
- Current Location: Collection Storage
- Collections: Biology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Medicine & Bodies, Printmaking, Text & Images