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current research 2005-09

+Inspiration 1: 2009
+Adelir's balloons: 2009
+A short manifesto for those who attempt to fly through the element of air: 2009
+I yearn to throw myself into endless space and float above the awful abyss . net: 2009
+Wan Hu, research in progress: 2009
+P.S. and yellowish with sunglasses that are nylon neon: 2008
+Billion Year Voyage . net: 2008
+Billion Year Voyage series: 2007
+Disassembling and assembling the sky: 2006
+Simultaneous portraits or danger music for Dick: 2005

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+David Colagiovanni currently teaches New Media and Video-Art at UNC - Chapel Hill and is the Artist in Residence at the Morehead Planetarium.  + cv

 

inspiration 1: 2009, David Colagiovanni

 

A short manifesto for those who are unaware that it is possible to sail through the element of air. (Eilmer) 2009

In 1010, Eilmer the young Benedictine monk inspired by Abbas Ibn Firnas' early manifesto climbed to the top of the Malmesbury Abbey with a set of handmade wings fashioned to resemble those of a jackdaw and jumped into the uplifting southwest wind becoming the first human to achieve a heavier-than-air human flight of about 200 yards.  This unfortunately resulted in him crashing into a marsh and breaking both his legs.  Eilmer was set to attempt the flight again with a newly made tail but due to his new popularity was later forbidden by his abbot to attempt the feat again fearing that he would take attention away from the church.

The work A short manifesto for those who are unaware that it is possible to sail through the element of air. (Eilmer) is a projected animation that places Eilmer in eternal flight upon the gallery walls away from the dangers of the abbot and far above the marshy meadows.