Crashing Through the Feed - Andrew Benson (PF22)
Artist Andrew Benson joins NFTuesdayLA to discuss his generative and experimental NFT Art projects that stem from an established practice of deconstructing digital media from the ground up. Benson’s process challenges the methods and processes of image creation and generative art through a persistent exploration of feedback networks, human gesture, and synthesis. Benson honed his singular approach to video and digital media in the context of early 2000s DIY performances and musical collaborations. He has since built an artistic practice that encompasses live visual performance, web works, installation, animation, and generative experiences. Today he brings his peculiar, rigorous and playfully defiant sense of digital media to web3 through independent NFT projects like Grinders, Shadow Flora, and most recently Energetic Beings (in partnership with Highlight and FWB).
ABOUT ANDREW BENSON
Andrew Benson, known online as @pixlpa, is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist. He holds a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute. Since 2005, Benson has been working for Cycling ’74 Software alongside his artistic practice to push forward creative programming tools for artists. He has collaborated with headlining artists like M.I.A. and Aphex Twin (w/ Weirdcore) among many others to develop innovative live visual shows and has contributed animations and video works to Adult Swim, many music videos, and commercial clients. His very online and offline art practice has spanned mid-2000s experimental media and noise scenes, live video performances, installations and screenings in the traditional context, the online net-art and GIF explosion, Glitch, and now NFT/web3 contexts.
