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.
A meme can only be sustained if it resonates harmonically with the memes with which it is associated. The present is in dynamic tension between being and becoming. “For any formal theory in which basic arithmetical facts are provable, either the theory is inconsistent or it is possible to construct an arithmetical statement which is true but not provable or refutable in the theory.”… No complex system can be understood in isolation.
My video work is represented by V-Tape
1Groucho that is.
Author Profession: Comedian
Nationality: American
Born: October 2, 1895
Died: August 19, 1977