Artist Statement
I create visualizations, glimpses into how information/data is framed to state a proposition. I’ve been doing this professionally for some time, but in the last five years in a more personal and vigorous way. These personal visualizations take on interrogations of attention, deficits and surpluses, and the effects of losing one’s senses, literally and figuratively, through  shifts of representation in media, identity and context.

Biography

Brett Phares is an artist/researcher working in computer visualization and installation, exploring god-like awareness in digital space and blindness in physical experience. His latest project, Museum of Massacre, expands on the topic of rampage in the media, combining the model of a museum with a web site as virtual  documentary. He has shown at SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore, Chelsea Art Museum NYC, and Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta; he writes and has presented on our pre-disposed blindness in everyday experience; and as curator and a judge for Alys Beach’s third annual projected art festival, Digital Graffiti, June 10th, 2010. With over 18 years in interactive media creating innovative advertising and communications for some big brands, Mr. Phares is assistant professor of interactive media/game studies at Marist College; drop a line for more information.

Education

MFA, Integrated Media Arts , Hunter College, CUNY, New York NY

MA, Art History, Theory and Criticism, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook NY

BFA Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder CO

It could be said that the moment one recognizes a certain sound in terms of meaning, one stops hearing the sound as sound.

-Otomo Yoshihide, composer and musician