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Peer Bode sound movie
 
       
 

Video in Latin means "I See". I am maneuvering through the ecstasy of communication, information and databases, i.e. new Milennial forms. These are the next powers and spaces of the bodymind, of re-territories, of bringing people together. Using electronic systems and conceptual systems, emerging modes of production and representation I make personal video, experimental television and new media events. I work the new video media power using the materials of signals and coded forms and silent forms. Electronics is world people, fluid semiotics, resonant beauty, new inner and outer world spaces, independent and personal making. Working in new media forms is to experience and adventure the birth of new arts, new world bodies, filled with wonders and pains, being present to life's vulnerabilities and richness.

As Cinema was to the 20th Century, "Post Media", Electronic Media Arts will be for the 21st Century. We are now in the time of "Post Media", PoMe, the "next" time of the old "Media". This is no longer the time of the singular monolith media but rather the evolution of our media ecologies to the many world, multiple media. A set of strategies and speculations I am particularly drawn to in these multiple forms involves discovering, mining and unleashing the electronic dialogues and crossings with contemporary philosophical, scientific and cultural discourses. This is a materials electronic field theory in practice. These are next actions in the electronic interdisciplinary world. Look what is happening in signal processing, linguistics, communication studies, cognitive and brain research, Deleuze and gang and more. Wow. Maybe this century will have world people knowing world people in their time.

 
 

 

Peer Bode
Professor of Video Arts
Co-Director, Institute for Electronic Arts

 
 
   
  Peer Bode is a nationally and internationally exhibiting artist with media works in museum collections world wide. He is also an active educator and studio advocate and facilitator of independent electronic media. He is associated with the renowned American Alfred and Owego schools of new media imaging. He is Professor of Video Arts at the School of Art and Design and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), NYSCC at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. His work is produced at the IEA, Alfred NY; the Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY and Pep Studios, Hornell and Rochester, NY.

Peer Bode's work is included in "a Survey of American Video Art - The First Decade", a project of Chicago's Video Data Bank, curated by Chris Hill. Peer Bode has collaborated on numerous electronic tool building projects with video systems designer David Jones and artist Ralph Hocking. Bode is a member of the “Carrier Band” with Pauline Oliveros and Andrew Deutsch. Their CDs are available on the Deep Listening label.