Phillip Stearns is the creator of the Year of the Glitch, a yearlong glitch-a-day project, and “Glitch Textiles,” a project exploring the intersection of digital art and textile design.
Electronic media operate primarily on only two of our senses: sight and hearing. Though he works with media technologies, electronics and electronic media, he tend to focus on condensing these in such a way that the technologies, tools, and media themselves become entangled with what would normally be read as
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Phillip Stearns is the creator of the Year of the Glitch, a yearlong glitch-a-day project, and “Glitch Textiles,” a project exploring the intersection of digital art and textile design.
Electronic media operate primarily on only two of our senses: sight and hearing. Though he works with media technologies, electronics and electronic media, he tend to focus on condensing these in such a way that the technologies, tools, and media themselves become entangled with what would normally be read as the content or the message. As electronic media (digital or analog), images, video, and sound become reduced to signal—a manifestation of some order defined within a certain system—Light and Sound themselves become raw materials for reconstituting electronic signals back into physiological experience.
Through deconstruction and reconfiguration the technologically mediated environment is approached as an assemblage, where human activity plays a role of equivalent importance to environmental agency. From this perspective, the development and application of our technologies, machines and tools reveals our perceptual biases, desires, dreams and fears—both conscious and unconscious. Cultural values and meaning, then, can be viewed as derivative, shaped by the particular conditions facilitating the distribution of agency through cascading exchanges of mediated interactions.
Phillip will discuss his work during the Digital Arts Salon on October 18. His digital arts work will be on exhibit in The Cube October 18 through November 22, 2014.
Digital Arts Salons are made possible, in part, through the support of a FAB! Knight New Work Award supported by Funding Arts Broward and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation! Funding for the Coral Springs Museum of Art is provided, in part, by the Broward County Board of County Commissioners as recommended by the Broward Cultural Council. The Museum is also sponsored, in part, by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.
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