Phillip Stearns
Bio:
Phillip Stearns is an interdisciplinary multimedia artist and electronics art educator. His work lies at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, drawing upon a variety of disciplines including installation, audio-video work, circuit sculpture, writing, performance art and musical composition. His work deals primarily with the topic technology, at times approaching electronic technologies as complex artificial living systems, organisms existing within interconnected economies and ecosystems. The core of his creative process lies in creating generative systems using electronics, crowds, or plants to explore the expressiveness within the act of allowing a system to come to its own conclusions. What are the implications of applying contemporary technological thinking to more primitive techniques and technologies as new starting points for re-conceptualizing the present and re-imagining the future?
Artist Statement:
The DCP Series of Digital Images are direct visualizations of data generated by a digital camera as it takes a picture. Electronic processes associated with the normal operations of the camera, which are usually taken for granted, are revealed through an act of intervention. The camera is turned inside-out through complexes of short-circuits, selected by the artist, transforming the camera from a picture taking device to a capturing device that renders raw data (electronic signals) as images. In essence, these images are snap-shots of electronic signals dancing through the camera's circuits, manually rerouted, written directly to the on-board memory device. Rather than seeing images of the world through a lens, we catch a glimpse of what the camera sees when it is forced to peer inside its own mind.
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