Spirit Photography
Sculptural Installation / 3D animation / Video - Three Channel
In this work, a miniature chair sits starkly in the exhibition surrounded by an assemblage of vintage hardware whose myriad cameras fix their lenses on the chair. A jungle of cabling runs through a structure of finely tuned devices whose esoteric mesh allow for the viewing of small spirits, animated beings alive in the light of the electric signal. As we watch, spirits enter and exit, coming to sit and express themselves expanding an imaginal layer to reality of a world of beings hovering just outside of the visible. Spirit Photography explores the growing relationship between our evolution of technologies for imaging and seeing the world through the light of the moving image and our connection to imaginal and the dreamscape.
Objects From the Other Dimensions
Untitled Barrier
3D Animation / Video - Single Channel
There is a place that has emerged, a window opened that we've stepped through. Within it, consciousness is developing as a form of wildlife, a breeze rippling across the emerging landscape. Welcome to UNTITLED BARRIER
Untitled Barrier was exhibited as part of Currents New Media 2018
Within The Light
3D animation / Video - Single Channel
The Light of Other Days
Hyperproducts
Objects from the New Product Line brought back on expeditions in the Multiverse
Expeditions to Gan
Neural Network Animations
Created with the BigGAN neural network utilizing Ganbreeder, a generative adversarial network trained on the ImageNet dataset. BigGAN is a neural network able to generate imagery through its training on real world objects and spaces.
The Nameless World - Video Sculpture 1
3d Animation / Video - Single Channel - RCA TV Set - Looping
The Nameless World - Temple on the Hill
3d Animation / Video - Single Channel - RCA TV Set - Looping
The Deep Novelty Harvest Colony
Stereoscopic Photography, Video, 2D and Stop Motion Animation / Multichannel Interactive Installation
The DNHC is the result of a deep dive exploration into the medium of stereoscopic imagery, in which two discrete images are presented to each of the viewer's eyes creating the effect of depth and three dimensional space. The technique was popular throughout the 1800s and early 1900s with many households owning their own stereoscope and card sets.
Through a range of experimental techniques I developed an archive of over a thousand stereoscopic images, animations, and videos which were presented in a ring of four interactive viewing stations through which viewers could navigate the archives of three dimensional spaces via a custom program that would present the work in a semi-random fashion but ensuring that no new videos would arise until the entire archive was viewed, allowing for a unique image pairing and experience each visit.
By accentuating the stereoscopic angles involved in the photography, widening or shortening the natural eye distances when photographed, the spaces take on a hyperreal quality as if carved out of reality itself. These spaces, while at times sitting silently within themselves, begin to exhibit emergent phenomena, bits of stereoscopic animation act as a sort of wildlife, composed of stereo collage, video, hand drawn and stop-motion animation.
The work is an attempt to depict sensations I experienced in direct perception of the present moment and the physical world, a sort of existential fascination with fabric of reality. I wanted to depict a visceral kinesthetic sensation of feeling the space and forms around me as if from the inside of them, feeling the structure of the space as if part of myself, and to see how one composes images with the perception of depth as a primary image component. I strove to depict my fascination with the grit of existence as it is, rather than particularly formulated, crafted, or imagined. The show was exhibited at the Hinterland Art.Space in Denver, Colorado, which at the time was located in the RiNo Arts district.
An interview with my me from then with Westword, can be read here.
The full collection of slides stored in the archive.
Li Series
Digital Video Processes - Datamoshing / Videos - Single Channel
Li is a concept found in neo-confucianism Chinese philosophy used in taoism to depict the underlying reason and order of nature expressed in its organic forms. Li is way of describing the structure of flow found in the natural world as compared to human's predominantly rectilinear forms. The Li Series is a body of work that uses digital processes and datamoshing to explore this flavor of flowing composition within digital video.
An Untitled video from this series was awarded 3rd Place at The Harlow gallery's Juried Show 2017. “Andrew Elijah Edwards’ video piece brings a hypnotic kind of calm to the space. The slowing of time is cathartic and the silence oddly comforting.” -Guest Juror Cory Daniels
Reverberations of Touch
Video - Stop Motion Animation - Single Channel - Looping
The Magician's Assistant
Web Art - Digital Video / Micro-Video Series
Part video journal, part performance art, The Magician's Assistant is an exploration of gesture that uses micro video loops and square aspect ratios to explore a world of intensive play. The series continued my interest in point of view perspectives and an exploration of the hand as a means of expressing personal present moment engagement with the world around me and a kind of magical ritualized approach to a non-linguistic dialogue between myself and the space of experience and sensation.
Feeler [cycles]
Digital Video / Installation - Five Channel
Between 2010 and 2012 I created a body of work exploring direct experience of space and presence though video. The work experiments with the use of my hands and the camera to collect spaces of tactile dialogue and kinesthetic play between myself and the space of my awareness. The camera becomes the gaze of attention and my hands an extension of my intention, will, and perception. The videos explore ecstatic experiences of existential awe and wonder via a deep fascination with physicality.
Feeler [autofolia]
Video - Single Channel
Between 2010 and 2012 I created a body of work exploring direct experience of space and presence though video. The work experiments with the use of my hands and the camera to collect spaces of tactile dialogue and kinesthetic play between myself and the space of my awareness. The camera becomes the gaze of attention and my hands an extension of my intention, will, and perception. The videos explore ecstatic experiences of existential awe and wonder via a deep fascination with physicality.
folding echoes in echoes
Electronic Video Installation / Light Projection - Realtime Digital Feedback Processes - Live feed.
An interactive light projection made up of a space of direct engagement with light. Through feedback, a sort of living light is created that echoes and recurs it's own forms back in on itself. All images within the installation are from a live video source, folded back into two interwoven feedback loops. One loop is optical feedback, the other is digital, using layered key filters to echo and iterate past content back into the installation. Viewers walking through or engaging with the space of light become folded into the information that reverberates within the projected image.
The Feeler Archives
Digital Video Collection
Between 2010 and 2012 I created a body of work exploring direct experience of space and presence though video. The work experimented with use of my hands and the camera to collect spaces of tactile dialogue and kinesthetic play between myself and the space of my awareness. The camera becomes the gaze of attention and my hands an extension of my intention, will, and perception. The videos explore ecstatic experiences of existential awe and wonder via a deep fascination with physicality.
