THE LINE THAT SEPARATES US

Armory Gallery

April 12 - 16, 2016

Senior Thesis Art Show

There is a fine line between the digital and physical worlds. I explore themes that exist around, across, and along this line. I am fascinated at how the two worlds affect and relate to one another. My work is a mix of different media, and has been described as absurd and comical, but also violent. In this show I studied the ideas of mark making, translation, representation, and the physicality digital technology.

My work explores what it means to be human amidst the age of computing. Each piece is the result of a love/hate relationship with the technology we interact with every day. At times I ‘collaborate’ with the computer, and other times I attempt to separate what is human from what is digital. In the series “Printing with Intuition“ I utilize a custom printing method that combines the mechanical printing process with the movement of my hands to create distinctive prints. I display the evidence of my struggle to understand these machines and how they work. My sculpture, “Audible Enigma” shows the absurdity I find in consumer technology when it is taken out of context. For this piece I have enclosed a desktop printer inside a sealed speaker box, leaving only the LCD panel and the unlabeled controls visible to the audience. I juxtapose the material and digital worlds in “Play and Rewind”; a sculpture made up of a small television, a piece of conduit, and a roll of unwinding videotape. This sculpture emphasizes the material form of videotape as unwinds above the TV, which is playing a digital recording of the videotape being hand-rewound.