Transegosynaps (2019)

Transegosynaps is a multichannel video work presented in “MAKE: Experiments in Artmaking,” an exhibition at Platform-L Contemporary in Seoul, South Korea, in October of 2019. This piece was created in collaboration with Amanda Johnson, James Ramer, and MarieVic.

The work explores the space between individual conception and the nodal network manifestation. Absurdities arise, juxtapositions develop and shift, disorientation becomes the norm, initiated from an AI’s random generation of concepts shared with participants this project explores shifts in identity and in a hyper-networked world. Technical innovations have fundamentally changed our relationship to the image and there by our  relationship to self and the other. In this  unique and formative time in the history of image making, a time which emerges distinctly from prior historical moments and is unique and singular in its potential.  Image culture exists in a kind of “super-velocity”. It is within this hyper-networked computationally enabled environment, new associations, understandings and strategies are emerging in the project. It is in this context that the project positions. 

Transegosynaps incorporates objects collected and constructed, historical images as well as studio and location imagery and video collected from locations in Asia, the US, from the Middle East to Europe and Northern Africa. The sum total creates an enigmatic landscape in which a multiplicity of potential narratives rise and recceed. This closed asthmatic (restrictive) system becomes self generative.