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| "Intellectual Property: Stolen #3" © Gene Gort |
The exhibition features ten new abstract digital print editions by Gene Gort, a multi-disciplinary artist from Avon, CT. Gort received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego and his BFA from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford where he is currently Professor of Media Arts, a program he designed and directs.
From Gene Gort's artist statement:
"I have recently become interested in NOISE; visual and sonic. The current project, "Intellectual Property", focuses on the visual noise generated from attempting to extract video from copyright encrypted commercial DVD's. As an educator who uses video clips as a mainstay of my classroom practice, I am always showing samples from various sources.
Recently, while attempting to extract sequences from mainstream movies, I was struck by the endless variation of intentional visual noise this process generates in order to keep me and everyone else from illegally copying movies. [...]
The images in this series are screen-grabs from this process; a kind of performance that I do responding to the real-time events I am watching on screen. The titles are an ironic pairing of "intellectual property" and the film title, like "Stolen", "Catch Me If You Can", "Precious", "Babel" or "Gone with the Wind". [...]
The images here represent a visual equivalent to the collision of the video, computer code, encryption algorithm and extraction process, my aesthetic sensibility and performance acumen - an equivalency that is independent of the content of the original source."
See a video interview of Gene Gort
The Gallery at Still River Editions is located at 128 East Liberty St., Danbury, CT.