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Mikey Peterson\u2019s meditative images shift through extended real-time shots, subtle dissolves and startling jump cuts.\u00a0 Light contrasts through darkened backgrounds, and classical elements\u2014water, fire, air and earth\u2014create abstracted spaces. These distortions, influenced by pre-CGI science fiction films, arthouse horror, experimental cinema, and sound collage aim to disturb the viewer\u2019s self-perception and sense of place while reinforcing and recontextualizing their bond with the natural world through the use of digital technology. \u00a0 Subtle events appear dramatic and nature\u2019s movements become surreal transformations as they reside within the boundary between the physical and the virtual. Lens-based footage, extracted from the natural world, is digitally altered and taken out of its original context in order to paradoxically reveal other truths about the world that it is from \u2013 unveiling connections between memory, environmental preservation, environmental degradation, and the human condition. \u00a0 To advance this process, Peterson manipulates the ambient sound from the source recordings to compose a cohesive soundtrack, moving the viewer into dream-like meditations, chaotic landscapes, and dark surreal spaces that showcase the organic rhythms of tone and light.<\/span><\/p>\n

His work has shown at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image; Chicago\u2019s Museum of Contemporary Photography; the Chicago Cultural Center; the University of Chicago\u2019s Smart Museum; Chicago\u2019s Zhou B Art Center; Rome\u2019s MAXXI Museum; South Korea\u2019s CICA Museum; the Torrance Art Museum; the Armory Center For The Arts in Pasadena, California; Northwest Film Forum; the SIGGRAPH Conference; \u00a0Lucca Film Festival; London\u2019s Visions in the Nunnery; CURRENTS New Media in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the LA Art Show; \u00a0the STREETVIDEOART exhibition in Paris, France; the New Museum of Network Art; \u00a0Brooklyn\u2019s Ende Tymes Festival, New York\u2019s Under The Subway Video Art Night, and the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.\u00a0 His work has been featured in publications including CICA Museum\u2019s Post Human: New Media Art 2020 and Digital Body: New Media Art 2018; Labocine.com; Lake Ivan Film Journal; Bridge Chicago; LoosenArt; Mexico City\u2019s Blancopop; Paris\u2019 Stigmart 10 \u2013 Videofocus; LandEscape Art Review and the online audio publication, Text Sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peterson develops and teaches courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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