Statement

My work is based on the notion that the moving image is a pervasive force of communication. It is the language for screen-based culture, the confluence of divergent visual media into a billion bright rectangles. The moving image is a ubiquitous part of architecture and environment, an object embedded in everyday spaces. The modern moving image defines territories including that of the televisual, the cinematic, the visual interface, the personal computer, and the telecommunications device. For today’s audience, the moving image communicates more than just story and symbolism—it communicates and produces space: physical space, social space, personal space, emotional space, and cultural space.

My practice maps the territories and intersections of these different spaces, utilizing the many representational modes of the moving image as unique vernaculars in a complex visual language. In such a way, I often describe my practice as engaging the moving image as a tool of cartography. I create experimental narratives, video art, multichannel installations, and expanded cinema in order to study conceptual environments and spatial theories. Many of my works concentrate on representations of landscape, place, and architecture in the moving image as points of entry to explore how different environments and concepts of space are communicated and perceived. This focus on visual information leads my formal techniques to be very much structured on lens-based composition, cinematographic principles, compositing, and image manipulation. By collapsing together so many divergent styles, I seek to confront the moving image in today’s changing media climate, exploring concepts of mediated space and contemporary screen-based media.

 

 

 

 

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