Madia Blackout I

Media Blackout I, (2016) DV, 4’, B&W, silent (alternative format: multiple monitor screening on loop)

Media Blackout I  explores what other meanings can be generated when language, as a system of representation, is challenged by dismantling words and letters into abstracted shapes.

In this piece, I use words not as a vehicle for a given meaning for the viewer to consume, but to turn the representational dimensions of language against representation. Media Blackout I is a digital video created using editing software and following an algorithm, in which the phrase “MEDIA BLACKOUT” is spelled letter by letter in rapid succession, growing in size from invisibly small to illegibly large. As the letters grow bigger, they gradually become abstracted shapes, pulsing out of the screen until black dominates the screen completely.