Christian Moeller will design and fabricate a site-specific work to be placed in the central plaza at the W Hotel & Residences, Hollywood, completion 2009. The primary material will be white carrera marble. This material has been used for making sculpture for 400 years, but in this case, the artist will manipulate the material to deliver the perception of image using digital means. The relief carved into the stone makes an image in “bitmap graphics”, created by casting shadows on the surface.

He is an artist working with contemporary media technologies to produce innovative and intense physical events, realized from handheld object to architectural scale installations. Over the past two decades, his body work represents one of the original and most complex investigations of what is possible to be revealed by the intersections of cinema, computation, music and physical space. Christian Moeller studied architecture at the College of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and was a scholarship holder under Gustav Peichel at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He has received numerous awards and his work has been exhibited worldwide. He lives and works in Hollywood and is a professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts.

Completion 2009