Algorithmic Video/Animation
My approach to video is one constructed from numbers. I'm concerned with the amount of time things actually take and how my viewers arrive to the event I'm sharing. This makes me for the most part a studio artist.
My time-based work attempts to recreate the concept of "reel-time" performance in post-production by allowing my content to define the rules for construction/editing. I view this process as a "scientific one" and always establish a series of rules before starting a new project. For instance in my video "conversation" 2000 I organize a three channel argument with the creation of a numeric game built from children's coloring paper. In my video about a car accident I describe the entire accident in 90seconds. In my video about my private life at home, my story board is built from instant lottery ticket numbers. If I won I'd move. As a painter who always had a reason to paint so much so I had a zillion paintings started at the same time. I found algorithmic constructions to be quite similar to performance and therefore the reality of my painting(a performative process). It was after attending undergraduate video workshops that I developed this editing technique while studying independently with conceptual artist Garry Neill Kennedy.
It was pure luck that I happened to be working in a style that now has an established name New Media. This prompted my further graduate studies at ITP.
(I'm still converting files and tapes)
My time-based work attempts to recreate the concept of "reel-time" performance in post-production by allowing my content to define the rules for construction/editing. I view this process as a "scientific one" and always establish a series of rules before starting a new project. For instance in my video "conversation" 2000 I organize a three channel argument with the creation of a numeric game built from children's coloring paper. In my video about a car accident I describe the entire accident in 90seconds. In my video about my private life at home, my story board is built from instant lottery ticket numbers. If I won I'd move. As a painter who always had a reason to paint so much so I had a zillion paintings started at the same time. I found algorithmic constructions to be quite similar to performance and therefore the reality of my painting(a performative process). It was after attending undergraduate video workshops that I developed this editing technique while studying independently with conceptual artist Garry Neill Kennedy.
It was pure luck that I happened to be working in a style that now has an established name New Media. This prompted my further graduate studies at ITP.
(I'm still converting files and tapes)
