Adam Basanta

Lives and works in Montreal, QC, Canada

Artist statement

My work investigates technology as a meeting point of concurrent, overlapping systems; a nexus of cultural, computational, biological, and economic forces. In uncovering, augmenting, and creating systems of intertwinement, I am trying to touch a sense of “liveness” or a nearly- living quality, the dynamism resulting from the unpredictable performances of various actants pulling independently in collective balance. Through a variety of media - installation, kinetic sculpture, sound, computational image-making - I employ the visual culture of commercial technologies as a core vocabulary, displacing them into an artistic context. Placing technologies in unconventional and absurd relationships to one another, I aim to create a fissure in their conventional functions, reflecting on their roles as contemporary prosthetics with which we co-exist in a hybrid ecology. My research and creation processes involve a balance of qualitative and quantitative approaches. I am particularly interested in the interplay between the two seemingly polar- opposite, binary viewpoints, and strive towards a cross-pollination in which one feeds and complicates the other, and vice versa.

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