To Represent (Video)

Authors

Adrian Chapman, Ursinus College

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Description

Projected video on a white wall simulating multiple organisms in a virtual environment. Part of a larger installation. Presented as part of the 2025 Annual Student Exhibit in the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College.

Artist Statement

These pieces all approach the issue of separation from human nature. I aim to explore technology as a natural human behavior and how it adds to and destroys other aspects of nature, for example through creating distance and removing those qualities. The pieces represent this relationship, where all natural things coexist and impact each other, but as a matter of course there are certain processes like our abstraction that catalyze a fundamental change. The coded pieces are a notion of genetic lifeforms. The sculpture resides in a specifically constructed subdivided environment to represent one consequence of a drive to control and seek comfort.

Comments

The downloadable MOV file has a run time of 7:29.

Student Exhibition Year

2025

Keywords

student art exhibit, 2025, projected video, ecosystem, installation, life cycle

Recommended Citation

Chapman, Adrian, "To Represent (Video)" (2025). 2025 Annual Student Art Exhibition Multimedia Works. 3.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/asae_2025_media/3

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Rights Statement

Copyright of the underlying work is held by the artist. The digital image presented here is for educational purposes only and is not for commercial use.