Douglas Rosman

I am an artist working at the intersection of art, code and technology. Fundamentally, I am motivated to explore how technology determines the dynamics of a world we perpetually reconstruct for ourselves: I seek to map the lived reality of an algorithmically mediated existence.

I utilize emerging technologies simultaneously as tools for artistic expression and as the subject matter of my work. I work primarily with code to create generative, computationally-driven experiences that manifest themselves as video works, interactive installations, audio-visual performances, drawings, and a variety of other media. Specifically, I create works that address–either through metaphor or recontextualization–our relationship with sophisticated technologies that observe us, learn from us, and then filter our world back to us in personally-tailored feedback loops.

Technology extends us, but it also presents a mirror. In our digitally augmented environment, data-parsing, artificially intelligent black box algorithms are increasingly a part of our everyday lives, such that we are always encountering situations where we do not and cannot access a one-to-one, transparent exchange of information with our surroundings. In this context, identity formation, relationship building, and the very act of meaning-making, is always precarious. We have learned to adapt to this condition of living, but I wonder what an alternative might be.

As an artist, I confront these less-than-visible systems that carry unknown amounts of control over our lives. I try to locate myself in these systems, in the hopes of providing some sort of template for others to find themselves in these systems.