Longing and Legacy
Bryant Dameron, video, 2008
In a world of media saturation the 2D image is validation. Stoic screens leave us more connected to unnatural, flat celebrity faces than to our rarely seen next-door-neighbors. We feel a power over the strange 2D world where we can "pause, rewind or fastfoward live TV," that doesn't exist anywhere else in life. Flickering ghost simulacra is our new longing. This digital experience created here is as much a simulation of experience as the idea is a simulation of an ideal.
Bryant Dameron
Born in White Stone, Virginia, USA in 1983. He has exhibited work internationally and across the USA in film festivals, gallery exhibtions, and television. Recent exhibitions include Videoholica 08 in Bulgaria, and 809 International New Image Art Festival in China. He graduated Virginia Tech in 2005 with a degree in Mass Media Communications, and in 2007 received a MFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. He currently lives and works in Richmond Virginia. In addition to film and video Bryant enjoys teaching, web-design, and turtle keeping.
