
From November 18, 2022 to mid-April, 2023, The Long Now Foundation presented interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s neon sculpture This Present Moment in an exhibit in partnership with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC).

The exhibition, housed in Landmark Building B, featured large lenticular prints, behind-the-scenes videos, and a massive steel-and-neon billboard sculpture. The piece featured an epigram by Long Now Foundation co-founder Stewart Brand from The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (2000). The billboard selectively illuminated Brand’s words, shifting from the full quote to Eggert’s edited version, then blinking into nothingness before restarting the cycle. Before installation at FMCAC, the artwork was brought to Long Now’s Mount Washington site in the Great Basin region, featuring ancient bristlecone pine trees (Pinus longaeva), some of the world’s longest-lived trees. The juxtaposition of ancient landscape and neon sign “establishes a literal relationship between the present moment and the long term, and physically models the essential simultaneity of multiple time scales.”
Alicia Eggert (b. 1981, Camden, NJ) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work gives material form to language and time. Her creative practice is motivated by understanding linear and finite human life within a seemingly infinite universe. Drawing from physics and philosophy, her sculptures co-opt styles and structures of commercial signage to communicate messages inspiring reflection and wonder.
From November 18, 2022 to mid-April, 2023, The Long Now Foundation presented interdisciplinary artist Alicia Eggert’s neon sculpture This Present Moment in an exhibit in partnership with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC).
Alicia Eggert:
AliciaEggert.com
Long Now Foundation:
LongNow.org
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