Michael Chernoff is a filmmaker and video artist from Buffalo, NY. His films, multimedia installations, and VR work, look at the environmental impact video has had on physical space and culture, as its signal and interfaces have continually changed and expanded through emerging technologies, and architecture.

Working with multi-channel video, interactive media, and real-time processing, Chernoff creates immersive video environments, which make viewers aware of the physical presence of screens and cameras. Adressing both past and present eras of video technology, Chernoff’s practice of assembling together analog and digital video devices, blurs distinct eras of screens and cameras into Video Archaeology. Chernoff uses the sculptural, archival, and signal qualities of video screens to show how they function as an activity space for attracting media consumption and human interaction to be surveilled, virtually and physically, from within and outside of screens. His work is intended to generate a greater awareness of how media shape us environmentally through the hyperreality of a collective apparatus of screens, cameras, computers, and information networks.

His work has been supported by institutions such as FEED Media Center, BICA, Buffalo International Film Festival, and the Chroma Art Film Festival. He teaches digital and 3D arts in the School of Visual Art + New Media at SUNY Fredonia.


^{Research Topics: Surveillance, Videosphere, Expanded Cinema, New Materialism, Glitch Media, Signal Processing, Perception, Compression, Remediation, Virtuality}
_{2023 - MFA Media Arts Production, Dept of Media Study, University at Buffalo
2011 - BFA & Art Ed. Minor, College of Arts & Ceramics, Alfred University}