Ever since I was a kid I’ve enjoyed making collages, playing with tape recorders and taking pictures. Arranging and juxtaposing sounds and images to find hidden meaning, or just plain silliness.
Nowadays, my work is informed by investigations into Chaos and Emergence. Using the tools and lenses of culture and technology, I investigate the emergent order that unfolds at the intersection of my perception, my will, and the physical world.
Since my own philosophy is constantly reformulating, I hope the following randomly generated paradigm will serve as my artist’s statement. To paraphrase Marx(1): These are my principles, if you don’t like them then click here, I have others.
Creativity is the ability to tease emergent order from the chaos of nature. The logic is circular, but such an autopoietic epistemology is fitting and self-similar to the subject matter. Life is the product of a universal drive toward complexity, and consciousness is its highest expression. We are, as are all the things that surround us, dissipative structures.
My video work is represented by V-Tape
1Groucho that is.
Author Profession: Comedian
Nationality: American
Born: October 2, 1895
Died: August 19, 1977