Artist Statement

My work is a continuous effort of innovative cultural documentation with an emphasis on the very media through which the work is influenced, created, and transmitted. Starting in the 1950s media theorist Marshall McLuhan held that "media are an extension of our selves." If this is true, and I believe it to be, we can further his theory, and posit that "the self can be a medium in turn". This ongoing process of life witnessed (documented) "through the eyes" of various new media is what I refer to as The Quantumedia Experiment™.

Mine is an ontological perspective on the concept of "life as art". My work, then, is a philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of the life energy we know, that of electro- magnetism at the quantum level. A poetics of experience. The veritably abstract. Works that fall into such a category are not necessarily individualized creative works of any particular medium, nor are they the medium itself, as McLuhan also held in his widely popularized theory "the medium is the message"...but, perhaps, the event of life itself as the work of art.

QUANTUMEDIA™ (kwntm) n. pl. quan•ta (-t) n. pl. me•di•a (-d-) plural me•di•ae /-E-"E/ n. (theory + practice) 1. The philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of electromagnetic energy; 2. A potent cocktail of citizen journalism, digital narrative, poetry, and enviromedia; 3. Multimedia documentation; 4. Creative format critical analysis of one's immediate surroundings, their environment, and/or socio-global issues.