David Moy

I have an interdisciplinary practice that utilizes printmaking techniques to explore the general population’s use of technology, considering ‘binge watching,’ the avid use of social media, files, pictures, and videos we store as a species, I examine the aspect of human error within the term “efficiency”. Growing up; television acted as my babysitter, my friend, and my source of authority, thus I use it as the origin for the images I make. I integrate appropriated stock images and webcam footage with my own images, drawing from the surface level that media and entertainment produce. I am looking at the edge between the “real” and virtual, questioning what a screen is, how it functions, and the progression throughout history. Referencing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, paintings hung on the wall, the silver screen, and infinitely accessible mobile devices, I use flat planes as a metaphor for absorbing, escaping from life. I also use bitmaps, or “bits” and traces made digitally, making compositions that suggest a gap or a void between us and the media that we are consuming. Conveying ideas of viewing, interaction, numbness, false replications, and the collected mind.

Instagram: @danny_useless

Email: david.moy.print (AT) gmail.com