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 BookwormDon?t bring him to the library: Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer?s ?book autopsy? sculptures turn books and encyclopedias into striking 3-D found art objects. Using surgical tools, the artist seals the edes of used volumes and slowly carves away sections to reveal and recontextualize the images contained within. Playing on ideas of obsolesence and permanence, Dettmer?s pieces are a truly original take on a familiar medium. briandettmer.com
 Star SearchScientists kick the search for extraterrestrial life into warp speed with the Allen Telescope Array, a grouping of of 350 20-foot dish antennas in California?s Cascade Mountains that are striking pieces of sculpture as well as technological marvels. The dishes function as a single super-telescope that scans the skies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to produce a digital image of the universe 17 times larger than the previous record holder?s. With plans to check out a million nearby star systems in the next two dozen years, the Allen Telescope Array should finally be giving us some answers. seti.org/ata/
 Guido van der WerveDutch video artist Guido van der Werve arrives at Montreal?s DHC Gallery as part of the exhibition ?Survivre au Temps.? Equal parts Bas Jan Ader and Caspar David Friedrich, van der Werve?s featured films depict the artist in characteristically grand settings: walking in front of an icebreaker in the Gulf of Bothnia or standing on the geographic North Pole for 24 hours and turning in the opposite direction of the earth. A sublime synthesis of Romantic expressiveness and conceptual vigor. On exhibit October 16th to November 22nd. dhc-art.org/
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