Residency @ Hub Feenix

2025-11-01 29 days

Karl Erickson

I make digital animations, videos, installations, and audio/visual performances. My art is about recognizing the agency of all the other-than-human entities with which we share the Earth. This includes plants and animals, as well as machines, “inanimate matter,” electricity, waste, the macroscopic and the microscopic. The complex systems I use in my art-making, from photogrammetry to modular synthesizers to data analysis are analogous to the complexity of the ecosystem.

In my art, there is a breakdown in the established order of meaning, nonsense proliferates, and identities become unfixed. I have been creating semi-autonomous digital puppets made from 3D scans of trash. This has led me to an interest in how puppets and puppeteers create connections between the human and the more-than-human.

While I Hub Feenix, I want to combine flora with human-made objects to create a series of digital puppets.

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