Jim Sanborn - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Kryptos, CIA, 1990. Embedded with four ciphers, it was intended as a challenge to the employees at the CIA. As of 2010, only three of the four messages have been deciphered.
• Coastline, 1993, an outdoor wave pool sculpture at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration complex in Silver Spring, Maryland.
• Cyrillic Projector, a sculpture installed at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1997.
• A,A, University of Houston, erected in front of the M.D. Anderson Library in 2004.
• Lingua located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It is said to contain historical text ranging from as far back as 1400 BC.
• Critical Assembly, 2003, modeled the first atomic bombs and key experiments of the Manhattan Project, which ran at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
• Radiance, 2003, Louisiana State University, erected in front of the Center for Energy Studies.
• Terrestrial Physics, 2009, which includes a full-scale working particle accelerator. It will premier in June 2010 as part of Biennial of the Americas.