Press
Montreal Express. August 31, 2007
Excerpt by Catherine Leroux
Le tout crée un effet de profondeur et de mouvement que le visiteur peut explorer en se promenant à travers les bandes. L’environnement change constamment, plongeant le public tantôt dans une pluie d’étoiles filantes, tantôt dans des arcades mouvantes qui étourdissent et rappellent, effectivement, les flashes et visions hypnotiques qui accompagnent l’arrivée du sommeil.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette. September 01, 2001
Excerpt from “Transcendent works reach for the ‘Aether’“ by Mary Thomas
…Paul Warne’s digital media installation “Perspective,”…provides an experience of space, one that the visitor may immerse in. Filling a darkened room is a gossamer maze of suspended panels that catch and repeat computer-animated images fired out of three projectors in 15-minute loops. Standing in their midst, surrounded by sound and visions of, among other things, tumbling binary numbers or dashing patches of light, is akin to being in the center of a video game…Here, he liberates both his animation and the viewer…
Pittsburgh Tribune Review. August 31, 2001
Excerpt from “Three Art Stories” by Kurt Shaw
…Paul Warne’s video installation piece “Perspective” consumes the space. Entering the gallery is like entering the space inside a projected movie. Animated imagery runs amok through multiple layers of strategically hung scrims of cheesecloth blurring the line between real and digital space…The impetuous of “Perspective” was Warne’s desire to create a three-dimensional virtual world that could exist in a three-dimensional space…By splitting and combining imagery, the piece creates an entire environment that breaks down the normal expectations of projected imagery on movie screens…