Everything I am is the Color of Nothing
April 1 - June 30, 2022
SU Art Galleries | The Electronic Gallery
This multichannel video installation by Eddie Lohmeyer plays with the relationship among Buddhist philosophy, digital technologies, and the hypercommodification of networked culture. Lohmeyer employs projection mapping and glitch techniques to think through concepts of Sunayta: the nothingness that comprises reality out of which worldly identities, concepts, and dualities are produced.
Eddie Lohmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of Central Florida. His research explores aesthetic and technical developments within histories of digital media, with an emphasis on video games and their relationship to the avant-garde. His book Unstable Aesthetics: Game Engines and the Strangeness of Modding is now available through Bloomsbury Press. Using deconstructive approaches such as glitch, physical modifications to hardware, and assemblage, his installations, sculpture, and video have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently at 1308 Gallery at the University of Wisconsin, Ground Level Platform (Chicago, IL), the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia, the 2021 Milan Machinima Festival, and Arts Warehouse (Delray Beach, FL).
Drawing from occult mysticism, Zen Buddhism, and art history, Lohmeyer’s art explores the intersections among human perception, digital technologies, and modes of spiritual abstraction. Through experimental film, video installation, sculpture, and interactive methods, his media interventions aim to reconsider our habitual encounters with digital technologies through uncanny and often transcendent interfaces and screens. The playfully ironic encounters with these strange media forms unveil normal attitudes and perceptions toward digital technologies that have become a mundane co-extension of our bodies, while questioning knowledge frameworks in contemporary networked culture through which we perceive and sense the world.
