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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 presently focused on the development of a series of emergent new media works which examine the language, mediation and possible restoration of lost ecological memory. The title of this project series - “Hylaea” refers to the mythical and now lost forests of ancient Greece and also to the first explorations of the virgin neotropical forest of the Americas. The intent of this project is to collectively bring together disparate artifacts of lost ecological memory such as the deep colors and textures of extinct birds wings, sonic translations of the DNA and proteins of missing species and the ambient environmental sounds and images of lost habitat to create an immersive interactive sensory experience for audience participants. My hope is that such an immersive experience may re-mediate lost ecological memory as a means of facilitating a discourse into our present tense state of ecological consciousness in a time of cascading extinctions.