Artist Statement

My digital series “Mass Communication” is an investigation into what people put onto the Internet and why they do it. Because of the possibility that anyone (or no one) will read what they write, we discover a massive, never-ending surplus of ranting, stream of consciousness, and the occasional soul-bearing coming from millions of Internet users. Through utilizing found text from blogs, social networking sites and online discussion forums, and by mimicking what others write, I hope to re-create the mesmerizing, distracting and awe-inspiring wealth of information available on the Internet. I use raw text, still compositions and animated text to lose my viewer within the narratives I’ve created, and the narratives of actual lives laid out publicly for the world to read. The viewer may leave cautioned to the perils of electronic communication, or encouraged at its possibilities, as was I.