The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007 Fall Arts Graduate show “Exibitol” will happen on Sunday, December 10th from 5pm to 9pm. The show will include installation, visual works, audio works, performance work and works in process culled over the last semester of production at the RPI Arts Department.

I will be introducing the beginnings of a new series of processed-image works at this show. These images, based loosely on the panoramic landscape work of Eadweard Muybridge, will take the form of large scale alternative-process prints ranging up to 4' in length. The prints will be created and processed digitally using a sampling algorithm that will pull visual information from up to a hundred images and display them simultaneously in one image. The resulting single-frame will consist of anywhere from a few minutes to several hours of visual data.

I will then be returning the images to a more traditional style of presentation by printing them in one of several older photographic “printing-out” processes.

It is my expectation that the aesthetic of the new image will evoke a new relationship to time in photography, an already loaded media form. It has occurred to me that changes in the imaging technology over the last hundred years has altered our expectation of the documentation of a span of time. By expanding the frame of time witnessed by the viewer, I hope to bridge the experience that may have been more prominent to an audience that existed during the slower wet-plate era of photography.