Decoding Culture Through New Media

 

For Lisa Marie Patzer, videography serves as both medium and message. Exploring the interplay between technology and power in the public sphere, Lisa Marie examines the ways digital communication interacts with and influences agency, control, independence and automation. Lisa Marie’s work pushes cinematic boundaries and provides viewers with an unexpected and engaging experience. 

 

Her current work explores how machine learning technologies “see” historic images. Producing scans of found-footage films, she processes the film strips using computer machine learning algorithms, then hand paints and applies photo transfer processes, yielding formal and conceptual connections that beguile the viewer. 

 

A 2019 Pew fellow and researcher for the Code / Art Research Program, Lisa Marie in 2018 became the first video artist in residence at the Icebox Project Space, producing a large-scale exhibition exploring the history of surveillance technology and the 4th Amendment.