The films of Andrew Benson (http://pixlpa.com) interweave infinite layers of visual loops into a hypnotic digital maelstrom. Based on fractured gradients, polygonal feedbacks, painterly gestures and data extrapolated from webcams they collide in a rushing speed – reminiscent of the groaning continuous load of our optimized society.
Originally conceived as ever-evolving real-time work Benson sliced out a short sequence for You have a Radical Face to create an intoxicating self-portrait of technocratic processes commonly used in video streaming.
The work is a retrospect of Penetrating Surfaces, an extensive screening curated by Robert Seidel (http://www.robertseidel.com) for the Film Museum Vienna in 2014. It deliberates on the materially-inherent aesthetic potential of the digital, a search above and beyond the boundaries of software and its media metaphors.
Andrew Benson, * 1979, lives and works in San Francisco (USA)
