New Media Artist Matthew White | Statement

Technology. Connection. Compulsion. These are themes I explore as an interdisciplinary and new media artist.

Film director Darren Aronofsky once described cut-and-paste as central to the modern psyche. Day after day — through texts, emails, social platforms, and networked systems — we move fragments from one context to another. Images, words, files, sounds, and data are continuously detached, transferred, duplicated, and reframed. In human terms, this acceleration is both compulsory and destabilizing.

My work draws from similarly fragmented sources: sound, digital imagery, discarded materials, consumer technology, hardware stores, garage sales, and online culture. I gather, manipulate, remix, and reposition materials until new relationships and meanings emerge.

Because I am not limited to traditional materials or methods, some works take technologically complex forms while others remain deliberately low-tech. Across both, the underlying process often becomes as important as the resulting object.

More recent projects expand that process further by embedding new media systems within the work itself. The result is often multi-faceted — existing across installation, sound, digital media, physical objects, and shifting presentation environments rather than within a single fixed form.

I also maintain a cross disciplinary existence outside the arts, particularly in technology and related fields. That overlap continually reinforces my interest in how networked culture, algorithmic systems, and generative AI reshape perception, attention, authorship, and our sense of place within increasingly mediated lives.