Peter Seidler, artist and entrepreneur, founded several world-leading design companies including Avalanche Systems and served as Chief Creative Officer of Razorfish Inc. Seidler is currently working on art projects developed in a flexible studio model with production facilities in India. Seidler currently serves as a Director of Eyebeam, a non-for-profit new media arts organization to promote access, education and support for artists, students and the general public in the field of art and technology. He is also a Director at the Creative Capital Foundation. Seidler holds an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts and followed this with post-graduate work at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program and Executive Business Education at the Harvard Business School. Peter currently lives in New York City.

Poloraid photographs became the basis for this set of paintings. The subjects were lit identically in an “institutional” light setup. Subjects with meditation experience were provided with a meditation cushion and asked to practice single pointed meditation and to place their gaze on a specific point just below lens. The subjects had a wide variety of meditation experience ranging from one week to over twenty thousand hours. At a random time in their session the camera’s shutter was triggered remotely. I brought the photographs to India and rendered them as paintings.

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