Animation, Digital Video, Wallpaper, Gold, Instagram Feed, Sound, LED Grow Lamp
Still Life features a networked video installation, prints rendered from augmented reality, immersive wallpaper constructed from bump map imaging, and gold mined from the California landscape. The installation peels back multiple layers of material translation to reveal a displaced human body within contemporary systems of value creation.
The exhibition features work across varied media and explores the way technology reshapes the relationship between humans and the physical world. The works come from oblique vantage points, but weave together to form a narrative that follows my attempts to make sense of the self within massive systems that can only be partially accessed through a technological lens. Artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and blockchain accounting are already destabilizing the role of the body in manufacturing, transportation, finance, and communication. My investigations attempt to recover the value of the biological body through labor and material transformation.
