Zombie Screens
(written pre-COVID pandemic)
A future culture may have to revive old methods of informing the public. Using the same digital visualization techniques that made these screens obsolete, the dead screens have been brought back to life to display timely messages. These are zombie screens, re-animated from their cinematic ruins. This will be the future's version of disease eradication, nuclear disarmament, and cultural moonshot.
UPDATE: Drive-in theaters, a relic entertainment type, have been resurrected by the pandemic: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/drive-in-theaters-adapt-to-coronavirus
@ Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC (2021)
@ CAM - Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC ( thru Aug. 2020)
@ UMKC Conservatory IMP Ensemble w/ Paul Rudy (2019)
Limited Edition large-format prints available on request.
Supported by the Regional Artist program of the North Carolina Arts Council.
From the cinematic ruins of drive-in theaters in the rural American south, a ghostly zombie projector reanimates the decayed screen for a new life. "American Values" is a catch-all phrase projected around the world, in both magnanimous and self-serving ways. Here, the shifting currents of economics have begun to yield to the colonizing forces of nature.
