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My current creative investigations are focused on the establishment of an emerging form of narrative which integrates biological and environmental sensibilities into the authoring and creation of experimental forms of electronic/digital media. The resulting body of work juxtaposes multimedia/electronica sources over an abstracted structure of biological elements and interactions. The biomimetic foundations in the works include concepts of the re-narration of extinction, the emergence of life, biological time, the duality of sustenance and the internal drama of pain. The aesthetic mediation of these works employ a poetic remix of video/audio origins, and sources that range in scale from the biomolecular to post-traditional ecologies. The resulting works converge content into a ‘biological narrative’ -- a story form or storyweb which integrates the dynamics and vulnerability of life systems expressed through multimedia output including interactive video/sound installations, sonic compositions and digital/live cinema performance as iterative versions.
The continued investigatory path of this creative research is moving forward through the following in-progress project activities:
Hylaea: The long range objective of this project is to explore a multi-dimensional compendium of ecological memory through digital/electronic media. The project's primary intent is that audience engagement will yield a vision and recollection of the complex imagined distance when ecological memory becomes lost to the circumstances of extinction.
Biological narrative: In tandem to a reduction-to-praxis of biological narrativity through making, I have also been engaged in the development and dissemination of supportive critical theory for new media-based biological narrativity.
Tools for life cinema: The “tools for life cinema” project brings the experimental hybridization of digital live cinema and performative bioinformatics into the form of "life cinema."
This subgenre of new media/digital cinematic performance builds upon patch processing, biological computing, artificial life, ecological modeling and biomimicry
in the realization of new media-based speculative outcomes.
Biotica Studio | Laboratory
is a collaboratorium for emerging forms of expression which cross propagate biological narrativity into the expanding multimedia lexicon. The online portal segment of this project mediates software tool distributions, published theory dissemination, a discussion forum and event publicity for upcoming venue involvement.
These current investigations can be further explored through the provided links.