For decades now, technology has been far surpassing the technique of the typical artist. With several artists, including myself stuck in the dimensions of the screen, it is hard to begin to dissect the devices which transmit visual information. Video Artists attempted this in the 70s and 80s, Paik/Abe and Rutt/Etra paving the way by [...]
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Live Without Dead Time, a web collage of memes surrounding America’s obsession with commodity and ego is now online at http://livewithoutdeadtime.info.
I shall be working on this website off and on for the next year, but several pages are now available to be viewed. Comment about the site here if you like.
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The history of graffiti will reveal the political rhetoric of the oppressed through images and slogans. Indeed, the voices of many otherwise unheard have shined through the use of graffiti. Look at all the tagging of graffiti artist signatures on trains and underpasses. The graffiti image may seem ambiguous and ever changing, sometimes incomprehensible. This [...]
I Walk, Don’t Run, When I Drive I’m on Drugs. The drugs of the information age. Sometimes I walk to school on the weekends. My fiance and I share a 2001 Subaru Outback Limited Sedan. She drives to work, a twenty mile roller coaster ride, while I trek 2.5 miles through South Side Syracuse with [...]
Untitled is an experiment in human perception and augmented reality. Visible light is usually represented in the center of a graph of the electromagnetic spectrum. This graph reveals the narrow bandwidth of electromagnetic radiation humans can actually perceive. Cameras and antennas can be calibrated to sense all other wavelengths. This dependence on the apparatus for [...]
A video screen projects on a vast wall in a dark space. A hunting spear rests on the floor, ready to be clutched by any willing participant. News headlines roam the video projection, flocking together on and off the screen.
Someone picks up the spear. Suddenly, news headlines scatter and flee the scene. The [...]
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The prefix tele- has been overused throughout the 20th century to mean “at a distance”. Categorically, tele is the prefix for any communication medium we are so accustomed to using. The telescope was possibly the first instrument used for vision across distances. The telephone is for speaking at a distance, the television was originally [...]