Spencer Finch’s Percent-for-Art commission for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is a shimmering meditation on computing and human perception, drawing on the artist’s decades-long explorations of light and color. For Finch, as well as his Impressionist, Pointillist, and Light and Space predecessors, color allows a complex exploration of subjectivity and phenomenology. It is ungraspable in essence yet remains a fundamental feature of visual perception and memory.
This video provides a behind the scenes look at the creation and fabrication of "Bring me the sunset in a cup" with commentary by artist Spencer Finch.