Between the relentless spread of consumerism and rapid advancement of technology, we find ourselves exposed to ever-greater amounts of visual stimuli. From television, movies, and the internet, to and endless sea of magazines, billboards, and print media, a steady stream of highly mediated imagery assails us. In the escalating battle for viewer attention, more and more of our information, regardless of its content, arrives in the form of elaborately manipulated visual sequences formally and structurally indistinguishable from mass entertainment. This results in a gradual poisoning of our experience, a profound level of alienation produced as our own internal narratives are colonized by the logic of the spectacle.

As a visual artist complicit in the production and consumption of images, I find this situation both fascinating and deeply problematic. I’m particularly concerned with a a kind of violence which underlies our overexposure to mediated images-- a violence not necessarily linked to content, but rather to the dissociative effects produced by the quantity, speed, and disparity of content of the imagery we consume. My work attempts to expose this violence while acknowledging its seductive force.

I work mainly with material appropriated from commercial film and television. Using re-recording, compression, and signal degradation to break down the original information, I’ve tried to collapse this breaking down these media images, I’m trying to uncover layers of meaning not apparent in the original context. At the same time, I want to problematize the act of viewing itself, in the hopes of revitalizing our relationship to the visual.