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Media Ingestion

The desire to be in front of the unblinking eye of the image drives our every sensory impulse… we can’t take our eyes off the image… which is why social spaces are lit by the light of television… the need for the constant presence of media has become so primal, so innate, so necessary, that we are no longer aware of it… the electronic signal feeds us, nourishes us, and we are never satiated… Immersion + Ingestion: electronic disturbances + the beauty of thee abstractions pushed to a rabid thirst for the unreal… 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… This is the SHOW: the process of making, the raw performance of artistic creation, it is REPORTAGE, it is not a finished WORK, it is the HEAT of ideas in formation, emerging, taking shape, before they coalesce into something finished, it is the Studio FEED, it is FEEDING through media ingestion and exhalation, it is like BREATHING, it is the ebb + flow of ideas exploding in the air… A performance of critique through ingestion.

  • The Televisual Impeachment Spectacle (10/3/2019)
  • Reportage (7/23/2019)
  • 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 Dilemma of Art Making for Super-Participatory Phone Addiction (4/4/2019)
  • The Complete and Total XTreme TRUMPological Shutdown of the Mind (1/18/2019)
  • New Year’s Greetings from the Bunker (1/1/2019)
  • We Live Inside the Manifestations of Human Minds (10/19/2018)
  • A Post-Television Surreal (12/21/2017)
  • The Political Effects of Media-On-Tap (12/17/2017)
  • We are Active Participants in the Videosphere (11/4/2017)
  • On Becoming a Meta-Narrator and Aggregation Machine in the #NeWWWorlDisorder (7/20/2017)
  • The Net Dynamic Environment (5/27/2017)
  • Meme Survival (5/25/2017)
  • Requiem for Truth (1/14/2017)
  • The FULL ON Grip of the Media Torrent (11/3/2016)
  • The Artist-Broadcaster Takes Control (12/19/2015)
  • Out of CTL (8/22/2015)
  • On Being a NetArtizen (2/20/2015)
  • Ephemeral, inexplicable renderings (11/11/2014)
  • My Memory Machine (10/30/2014)
  • A performance of critique through Ingestion (8/9/2014)
  • The Media Torrent (7/12/2014)
  • Who is Dr. Boo Boo? (7/4/2014)
  • Conducting the Sensory Overflow (6/27/2014)
  • The Contamination of the Broadcast (5/2/2014)
  • Digital life in the bombed out fast lane (4/24/2014)
  • Just the Right Amount of Wrong (3/23/2014)
  • Videologue (3/5/2014)
  • Television is my Medium (3/3/2014)
  • Feed (2/27/2014)
  • Whatever (2/12/2014)
  • This will be an entertaining nightmare of ingestion and recapitulation (3/7/2013)
  • The total medialization of the everyday (5/21/2011)

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