Technology Will Save Us All

This series of artworks focuses on the intersection of society and technology. The ideological motifs that motivate each artwork spring from my personal history and tie into larger cultural concerns. My father was a mathematician who was involved in computers and coding before the rise of personal computing in the 1980s. As a child, I was always surrounded and influenced by my father’s obsession with computers, science, and logic. I was raised to have respect and understanding for these topics, though my interests lay elsewhere. As the years progressed I saw the rise of technology from a new convenience to a pervasive, supremely powerful force in everyday life and the economy. This art series explores my perceptions of the spiritual and economic impact that the digital revolution has on humanity.

I use a background collage of printed Wikipedia articles that relate to the theme of the work. I add to that acrylic paint reminiscent of the Pop Art screen printing of the 1960s for a focal point of the work. Then, in a carefully conceived schematic, evocative of a circuit diagram I add gold tape and paint, vacuum tubes, computer punch cards, circuit boards, religious medals, crucifixes, and a variety of symbolic objects that relate to the specific subject of the individual artwork. In these artworks I view our emerging technocracy through a critical lens of philosophy and inequality.