Curator's Corner
by Mary Magsamen

Welcome to my corner of Aurora!  I have piles of DVDs and I am always looking for a wonderful film and video to include in an upcoming program.  This portion of the Aurora website will highlight member's videos.  Every month I will select a video from our library or submissions and give it an online show.  If you are not an Aurora member already, become one now! 

This month's featured artist is Christopher Pickett and his short "Mythology/Geography."

 

Mythology / Geography
Three Channel Video, Audio, Fiberboard Maps
2009

Mythology / Geography centers around how a pop-culture context abstracts our perception of places and their cultures. Three televisions play scenes and thematic music from a Bollywood film, a spaghetti western and a kung-fu movie. The televisions face directly into maps of the geographical locations that they are supposed to represent - India, The American Southwest and China, respectively. The resulting abstraction of light and sound reflects our perceptions of these locations.

Christopher Pickett is a recent undergraduate from the University of Houston's Photogarphy and Digital Media program. His work is an exploration of how contextual information affects our perception of the world around us.