Mine Mirror

Mine Mirror is a site-specific installation in the Computer Lab of the Hardman and Jacobs Undergraduate Learning Center at the New Mexico State University, comprising a three-dimensional arrangement of mirror plates and a text wall. The University's knowledge, the digital archive, uploaded by the students and stored on hard drives, was transformed into mirror elements using urban mining and vacuum evaporation, a process used for producing telescopic mirrors. 

The monitor-sized, metal-coated plates are arranged in different angles so that the users of the Computer Lab can see each other in the reflections of the mirrors. As an echo, the file names of the submitted digital content fill an endless list on a monumental text wall in the building's atrium.

Awards:

1st prize in invited competition

Collaborators:

Collaborating artist: Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld

Project management: University Art Museum NMSU, Marissa Sage

Production: Eukatec, Germany; Lovely Projects, Germany

Contractor: Watermelon Mountain West, USA

Photography: Agustin Estrada