Visiting Artist: Eric Souther

Thursday, October 3, 2019
Richmond Center for Visual Arts
room 2008 at 5:30 p.m.

Eric Souther is a kinetic imaging artist who draws from a multiplicity of disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, ritual, critical theory, and speculative illustration & design. He develops software instruments and code that investigate technological & cultural ecologies. He looks for new ways of seeing beyond the seductive qualities of an image, and to find unseen connections that help us understand our digital and non-digital existence. His work takes many pathways, which includes single channel video, interactive installation, projection mapping, print, VR, and audiovisual performance.

His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY), and the Museum of Art (Zhangzhou, China). His work has been screened in The Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece), Instanbul International Experimental Film Festival (Beyoglu, Instanbul), Cronosfera Festival (Alessandria, Italy), the Galerija 12 New Media Hub (Belgrade, Serbia), and the Simultan Festival (Timisoara, Romania).

In 2016, Eric won the Juried Award for Time-Based at the international art competition ArtPrize. He received his B.F.A in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009 and his M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2011, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Illustration Design in the Division of Expanded Media at NYSCC at Alfred University.

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