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Intoxicating Embrace

The critique of the media should allow for it intoxicating embrace, a blur between critique and seduction. That is where I situate myself as an artist: part objectively critical and part subjectively immersed in the experience of the media… It’s a bit of magic and trickery, digital smoke and mirrors designed to produce an intoxicated psychosis for myself and my audience… This is my process in the studio: an orchestrator of the Feed, the stream – a torrent of pixels and invisible binary data – applying a bit of algorithmic magic to intoxicate the senses, as cathartic shock to the toxic system of the ebb and flow of media ingestion and exhalation.

  • Life in the TRUMP Zone (8/10/2020)
  • Reportage (7/23/2019)
  • Two Minutes Hate (7/21/2019)
  • As I Sink Even Deeper into the Hypnosis of the Media Torrent (5/1/2019)
  • To Grasp the Sheer Volume of Media Excess (4/14/2019)
  • The Complete and Total XTreme TRUMPological Shutdown of the Mind (1/18/2019)
  • A Post-Television Surreal (12/21/2017)
  • The Political Effects of Media-On-Tap (12/17/2017)
  • On Becoming a Meta-Narrator and Aggregation Machine in the #NeWWWorlDisorder (7/20/2017)
  • The Spies Who Loved Me (5/25/2017)
  • You’re Fired! (5/12/2017)
  • The TRUMP Simulation Effect (4/16/2017)
  • Requiem for Truth (1/14/2017)
  • The Death of Reality (11/25/2016)
  • The Transition (11/19/2016)
  • Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (11/12/2016)
  • What Induces XTreme TRUMPology? (9/10/2016)
  • How to Embrace XTreme TRUMPology (9/3/2016)
  • The Poetics of Machine Language (8/18/2016)
  • Episodic Drama of the Real Delegates of Cleveland (7/22/2016)
  • Living in a Make Believe World (3/26/2016)
  • Migration into the Digital Hinterland (1/23/2016)
  • Out of CTL (8/22/2015)
  • Everyone Wants to be on TV (6/23/2015)
  • Net Behaviour(s) (1/17/2015)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth (11/26/2014)
  • The Intimacy of the Machine (10/25/2014)
  • Television is my Medium (3/3/2014)
  • Feed (2/27/2014)
  • Exposing the effects of media (7/31/2013)
  • Anything but trivial (7/19/2013)
  • It’s Just a Hyperkinetic Media Deconstruction Machine (7/14/2013)
  • To live in the space of the inexplicable (6/16/2013)
  • Giving into bad taste (for the moment) (5/15/2013)
  • The Wall as Collective Experience (4/26/2013)
  • The Indigenous Digital Native (2/22/2013)
  • Tracking the Mediated Experience (11/22/2012)
  • Living publicly online (9/6/2012)
  • Crash and burn in feverish disinformation (6/7/2012)
  • Why I feel the need to situate myself under the lights (6/21/2011)
  • The power of the voice (2/6/2011)
  • The Critique of the Media Should Allow for its Intoxicating Embrace (1/16/2011)
  • Crash and burn in feverish disinformation (10/21/2010)

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