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Alumni Gazette

The eerie and refined images of Sam Sadtler 鈥�12, you could say, honor the dead. A mechanical engineer and an artist who works in the media of photography, sculpture, and video, Sadtler explores the world of outmoded and discarded household electronics.

鈥淚鈥檓 interested in objects that were created and almost immediately were obsolete,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 want to give these objects a presentation in a way that they never really had, as a way to honor them. It sounds a little strange, but I鈥檓 in many ways personifying these objects. What is the send-off that something that we created and tossed away almost immediately deserves? And how do we need to document them in order for them to be remembered?鈥�

From 2012 to 2014, a series of photographs by Sadtler called 鈥淎utomation Abomination鈥� traveled the United States. This year, two images from the series, including this one鈥攁 29鈥� x 20鈥� digital scan called 鈥淭he Elegance of a Knife鈥濃�攈ave been on display in the home of Greta Holtz, U.S. ambassador to Oman, as part of the Art in Embassies program, sponsored by the State Department.

Sadtler is a graduate student in the interactive telecommunications program at NYU鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts.

鈥擪aren McCally 鈥�02 (PhD)