earth dot sky

Filmmaker and Installation Artist Roberto Mighty, MFA, is America’s first cemetery Artist-in-Residence, and the inaugural resident artist at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark and America’s first garden cemetery. His 'earth.sky' installation features films and multimedia in an immersive, computer controlled, multi projector traveling exhibit now available for museums worldwide. earth.sky “Entropy” Interred: Claude Elwood Shannon 1916 - 2001 Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Artist Statement “About a year ago, I got an email from an old business colleague. We hadn’t worked together in over twenty five years. He’d read about earth.sky, and mentioned visiting his friend’s grave at Mount Auburn from time to time, adding that his friend’s father was an eminent mathematician and cryptographer who is relatively unknown to the general public. Having seen the recent film about Alan Turing, the great British WWII cryptographer, my interest was piqued. While considering many different ways of approaching this project, I happened to meet Peter Falb, a Friend of Mount Auburn and a distinguished mathematician. At the mention of Shannon’s name, Peter’s eyes lit up and he began speaking with great passion about the importance of Shannon’s work to our digital information age. Peter agreed to do a voice interview for this brief piece, which turns out to be an appreciation from someone who really understands Shannon’s contributions to humankind.” Credits Witness Peter Falb MIT Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems Visiting Scientist Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics Brown University Music Ecclesia Ambienteer Courtesy of Free Music Archive Electronic Age Composer: Patrick Smith PRO: BMI Publisher: Electric Philharmonic Courtesy of Audioblocks Funding for this project A. J. & M. D. Ruggiero Memorial Trust Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Arts Council Preservation Fund for Eastern Massachusetts of The National Trust for Historic Preservation Mass Humanities Watertown Cultural Council ©2016 Roberto Mighty earthdotsky.com - all rights reserved -