Artist Statement
"Michael Chernoff is a filmmaker and installation artist whose work recontextualizes the cultural dominance of video screens as surveillance spaces through immersive practices in virtual production, signal processing, and intermedia assemblage. His films and video art installations often feature conceptually driven 'video archaeology objects' made by combining obsolete video equipment with digital technologies, offering insights into the historic effects and conceptual identity of video signals, screens, and media. Through audience interactivity, his use of live cameras, feedback, 3D models, and video screens draws attention to 'invisible' media environments naturalized within architectural spaces. His other interests include virtuality, technocracy, post-industrial landscapes, and sustainability.
His work has been supported by institutions such as FEED Media Center, 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, Experimental Film, New Materialism, Glitch, Signal Processing, Perception, Compression, Remediation, Virtuality
2023 - MFA Media Arts Production, Dept of Media Study, CAS, University at Buffalo
2011 - BFA & Art Ed. Minor, College of Arts & Ceramics, Alfred University
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Project Index︎︎︎
2023
Videosphere: You’re Always On A Screen Somewhere...
Brown Bunny
Inertia
2022
MAX Jitter Programming
FxR Versus AhR
Async Rolling
Always On
Enframing Rey
The Vidiot
Computer Home Entertainment
2021
Machine Learning: ATM
Pursuing Earth
THE LIBERTARIAN
Wiley World Wide Weather
ReWind Compressor
Discarding Earth
Being A Passenger
2020
Can(t) See Me Now!
ColorPress Brush
White Ball Flux Brush
THE APP
2019
PATS
2018
Ice Cream Drone
2015
Vanilla ISIS
2017
Invisible Foci
2014
Digital Synthesis Illustration
2013
Rood World
Synthesis Ilustration
2011
Verse
Master (Series)
Video Being
2010
Dance Aches
Bangalor
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