Chicago

Bryne Rasmussen is an artist from Chicago currently living in Los Angeles while working on an MFA in the Art and Technology program at the California Institute of the Arts.

I am a Chicago-based media art historian and amateur archivist. Currently I am researching and creating a web-based archive bringing together the work and documents of Shirley Clarke and the Tee Pee Video Space Troupe.

I am interested in the social and philosophical implications that exist when one realizes that ‘seeing is not believing', since it is within the limits of our perceptual framework that we interpret and act within the world. My work focuses on the construction of realities through our perceptual faculties, with the conceptual basis of the work determining the method and material used in its expression. This has included the use of interactive digital electronics as well as low-tech means in exploring themes as varied as abstract narrative, boundaries relating to physical and intangible properties, issues of trespass, and the mating behavior of hermaphroditic flatworms.

i am a video, photography, and installation artist.
my interdisciplinary activities have included professional work as a documentary photographer, dp, visual + verbal editor, critical + creative writer, journalist, and instructor.