Artist: Phoenix Perry Title: The Shadow of Digital Living Piece Description: This film is about my experience with technology as it has evolved during my lifetime. I suffer from a condition called Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI), caused by my constant and repetitive exposure to computers. Many people are beginning to break down biologically as a result of un-ergonomic, purposefully anti-body, input devices. As a result my interaction with technology is significantly different than the normal experience. I am seeing the fissures and breakdowns caused by breaking bodies and technologically obsolete machines. This film compares my hair to technologies unruly growth and development. RSI forced me to cut my long hair off because I simply could not physically comb through the knots. This happened simultaneously to the dot-boom/dot-bust economic crash. I found irony in this. Using a broken DV camera, dropped during a political protest rally, and a circuit-bent video mixer, I created these re-processed images of my hair that become the metaphor for the way technology both positively and negatively integrates into society. About the Artist: Phoenix Perry has been curating video art and music events in the San Francisco Bay area for the last four years. She has shown her own video and installation work in London, Barcelona, Hanover, and San Francisco. Now, her main project, Form8, a collaboration between her and Brian Jackson, combines cutting edge art events, SYNTH, a nightclub, and Memory Systems, an electronic music project. Memory Systems' sounds and images recall a future-past-perfect of immaculate robotic shopping malls, bright shiny objects, and an earlier era's innocent immersion in technological glamour. Phoenix Perry's lushly ambiguous imagery utilizes digital decay and degradation while retaining rich beauty and compelling density. Perry constantly pushes systems until they break down in order to reflect technologies problematic and often uncriticized place within our lives. » Email Phoenix Perry » www.form8.com