My working process resembles the scientific method, if you squint at it. But where the scientific method doggedly pursues a universal truth, my works dawdle along stranger paths. Moving as needed across disciplines and media, I make working products that are desirable but unsellable; sculptures that are immanent but largely invisible; and performances that address no audience.
When working in video, I minimize edits and post-production effects, instead using the form as forensic documentation of carefully-crafted situations, sculptures, or performances - proof the thing happened, and how it was when it did what it did. Addressing the viewer as a colleague, a peer and not a punter, affords me a rich mix of candor, rigor, and humor that I can’t access otherwise.
In sculpture and installation, he strikes a careful balance between the thing-in-the-room and the historical, technical, and economic context that brought it there - the goal is to create an experience that rewards deep engagement, developing in the beholder’s memory long after they’ve left the room.
For the last decade his commercial practice has focused exclusively on working with established artists on large-scale installations and experiments. See the consulting work here
I studied video/new media art at Harvard and received a Master’s from the Hyperinstruments Group at the MIT Media Lab. I’ve been username AKA or AKA MEDIA SYSTEM since my early video/dub performance days so that’s why you’ll see the AKA name here and there.
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