In my work I investigate intertwining and interaction with the computer, information as an environment and the body as the site of cognition within this context. Computer technology allows me to detect and incorporate the body's presence, movement and proximity in a dynamic negotiation with information and processes internal to the computer. The concept of intertextuality operates in my work through the ongoing calculations of the computer software and electronic sensing. The computer and sensors weave together the body of the viewer with digital information from multiple sources such as on line databases. The intertwining of these elements occurs within the algorithm expressed through computer software.
Time is expressed as shifts in states within the computer and experienced as images and sounds.
The result is a dynamic environment in which the viewer participates through acts of negotiation. My work makes apparent the manipulation of information and the processes involved in the calculation of digital representations as phenomena. The environments I create present computer representations as dynamic, fluid structures in which the viewer participates in space and time in processes that create meaning. My goal is to structure an open work where computer information and processes are subjected to the play of differences and where meaning occurs as an event at the chiasm of the body, information and the computer. Biographical Information Elliot Anderson received his MA in Creative Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies and BA in Art from San Francisco State University and a BS in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston.