Artist’s Statement
My work explores electronic feedback systems and recursive networks as they pertain to issues surrounding perception, memory, identity, and consciousness. I work with hardware, software, audio and video, and try my best to construct a unique, handcrafted system for each project. The desire to avoid using pre-made systems in my work has led me into various disciplines including electronics, hardware hacking and modification, DSP programming and artificial intelligence research.
In my essay The Machine Doesn’t Care I discuss the interrelationship between technological obsolescence and the nature of identity as intrinsically bound up with memory structures. I assert that our most ubiquitous technological object –the computer in all its various forms—is largely analogous to the human brain as pertains to the manner in which it stores, recalls, and restores memory. But computers are not built to do feedback, a process that seems to be at the very heart of human perception and identity. By taking machines and forcing them into a kind of self-perception, an exciting ontological can of worms is opened. Questions regarding personhood, the ghost in the machine, problems of time and memory, perception and self-perception follow naturally.
