About Me

dlnwgnr/xaldyn, artist, new york, 1996

for my entire life, the computer has been my medium of expression. we are in the era of digital creation, and though the computer is used as a vessel for an infinite number of tools in the form of software, the computer is itself a single tool. the internet is the convergence of every medium from all of history transferred over a single fiberoptic cable. different interfaces were created to share different forms of art created with the same language. though it makes it simpler to understand, the ability to create links across the web means singular pieces of art can exceed the limitations of one virtual medium and seamlessly continue onto another. as we experience this through a screen, the bigger picture is painted by our imagination. with virtual reality looming over the horizon, and world building the digital space, it is becoming more and more apparent how our reality is replicable through the multiplexing of various signals through complex mathematics.

my art seeks to illuminate this concept by simulating the look and feel of computing technology from the time before computers were universally used to create the media we consume. ypbpr is about the conversion of analog data to digital data so it can be interpreted, copied, transferred, manipulated, displayed, and executed by the machine. much like our senses are converting information to electrical impulses to be interpreted by our brains and multiplexed into a memory. i try to challenge myself to subvert the limits of contemporary social media by recalling the era of experimental social media and personal webpages. though not long ago, the rapid rate of change in the digital space makes it hard to remember what it used to feel like. i wished i was able to fully take advantage of the technology at the time and use its limitations to my advantage, but i was too young. The more and more time i took to learn these concepts it felt like it was too late due to the ever changing landscape. we have reached a point where we are self aware of how digital expression has been changing the way we perceive reality and how it has been projected onto the physical world. let's reflect on the era before we were faced with our current reality.