Philip Worthington
Shadow Monsters

Shadow Monsters

© 2015 Philip Worthington

Shadow Monsters
Shadow Monsters
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Shadow Monsters
Date2004–ongoing
MediumJava, Processing, BlobDetection, SoNIA, and Physics software
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2016.156
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"Touch Me," Victoria & Albert Museum, London, June 16–August 29, 2005.

"Design Mart," Design Museum, London, September 20, 2006–January 7, 2007.

"Design and the Elastic Mind," Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 24–May 12, 2008.

"Experimenta Playground," Carriage Works, Sydney, Australia, May 8–June 7, 2008; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia, August 29–October 17, 2008; Western Australian Museum, Perth, November 15, 2008–January 27, 2009; Bendigo Art Gallery, Australia, April 25–June 7, 2009; Albury Library Museum, Australia, July 25–September 7, 2009.

"Shadow Monsters," EMP [Experience Music Project] Museum, Seattle, August 1, 2011–October 1, 2014.

"Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000," Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 29–November 5, 2012.

"Shadow Monsters," Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, ongoing.

"Phil Worthington: Shadow Monsters," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 23–November 1, 2015.

"Immersed: Local to Global Art Sensations," McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, June 7–September 2, 2018.

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