2001-2007

My work is concerned with the opposition between mediated information and direct experience. Each day we are visually and aurally assaulted by information generated and transmitted via an endless array of technologies. None of these methods of delivery are neutral, all technologies, all forms of mediation alter meaning. The result is a modern world made up of poorly related levels of experience: a fractured psychic landscape. The practical implications are increasingly grotesque and terrifying (The Global War on Terror, the Academy Awards, the Superbowl). Disinformation, and the sheer volume of non-information posing as “news”, threatens to overwhelm us. If Democracy requires an informed electorate, what happens when our modes of information delivery fail?

I use paint as an instrument of inquiry because of its directness, its highly developed language of abstraction (abstraction from its beginnings bears a strong historical connection to technological innovation), and its potential to serve as counterpoint to the dematerialized nature of mediated information. My photos and video serve as a visual record of the fracturing and as a form of notetaking for the paintings.

As we move forward, advancing screen technologies will lead to information display that is everywhere, all the time. The question my work attempts to ask is: what impact is this having on us?