Victor Liu
103 Prospect Park West #4
Brooklyn, NY US 11215
victor@n-gon.com
I am an artist working with digital media, with a concentration on the shifts in perception entailed with digital media. My work is guided by the belief that these shifts in perception have implications for the subjective experience of culture, as well as for the transmission of cultural memory.
My work has shown at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens NY, the FILE Festival in Brazil, the Microwave Festival in Singapore, the Boston Center for the Arts, among other venues. Grants and commissions include a NYFA Fellowship in Computer Arts and work commissions from Turbulence.org and the Whitney Museum's Artport. I also served as a juror for the 2008 NYFA Computer Arts Fellowships.
My current artistic work is confined to the project Airlocks & Valences. It's an interactive, screen-based media installation exploring the notion of legacy as passed down through digital cultural artifacts. The related notions of ruin and myth — already carrying substantial conceptual heft — take on added dimension when applied to the realm of digital construction. Airlocks & Valences has a self-interest in the question of digital legacy since it exists only as a digital construction, and so presents in microcosm the main issues facing digital legacy: (i) the infinite reproducibility of digital media and its effect on copyright law and on artwork distribution; (ii) the obsolescence of playback hardware and the possibility of "lost histories"; and (iii) the malleability of digital media in the hands of computer software, enabling new forms of "documents".
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