MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
CYBERDELIC ART FROM
THE TELEVISUAL DIMENSIONS
RECENT WORK
‘FEEDING MACHINES’ SERIES (2024)
RECENT WORK
‘THE CYBERDELIC ESCAPE FROM THE SELF REPLICATING GOBLIN COSSACKS’ (2023)
Artist Jesse Chard explains the process of the development of this series
‘THE CYBERDELIC ESCAPE FROM THE SELF REPLICATING GOBLIN COSSACKS’ (SERIES, 2023)
Sublimation dye transfer on ChromaLuxe aluminum plates
My great, great grandfather, Benjamin Bresinskie B. 1857, in Belarus/Russia, was born into a family of Cossack military aristocracy (and criminal underground).
Deeply dissatisfied with his fated life and his burning need to become an artist, he fled his family in the night and into the cold Belarusian winter.
To find shelter with limited options, he found a horse in a creek, gutted it and slept in it to survive. Later he would flee to Austria where he met my great, great grandmother, Ermestina, an Austrian Jew.
They moved to Australia in 1904 and became naturalised citizens. Benjamin would fulfill his wish and became an artist/set designer and decorator for Melbourne theatres.
This work seeks to represent the phantasms that haunt the ancestral memory, the pursuit and the dread that Benjamin must have felt facing the certain death if he was recaptured by his family. And the desperate pursuit to fulfill an existential purpose that cannot be ignored.
In the ancestral memory, the phantasms become a byproduct of the ontological experience of the fulfilment of purpose. Diluted across generations, the phantasms become operators of the cyberdelic medulla oblongata, and take shape in a free association.
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‘THE TELEVISUAL MEMORY OF OUR LOST FUTURES’ (2023)
Hybrid work combining performative documentary, visual installation, visual art, sound design, composition.
Materials: Digital video, live performance, digital transfer to ChromaLuxe Aluminum Plate, custom engineered housing, reactive visual programming.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jesse Chard (born 1979, Sydney Australia), operating under the art moniker ‘The Vidiot’, is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, sound-designer and composer.
Formally trained in filmmaking, sound design, post-production and editing, his trajectory took a sharp turn in 2019, when a significant psychedelic experience led him to delve into video art, visual art and generative design.
With a strong focus on the interplay between human and machine, Jesse’s striking ‘cyberdelic’ artworks are developed using an intricate process that incorporates artificial intelligence, compositing and outpainting.
His works are built using thousands of human/machine system dialogs that generate raw visual material that forms the basis of each work.
Then with subsequent generations and mutations, Jesse’s art is directly built by the interplay between his own psychology and the results derived from the machine.
The resulting work is a hybrid selection of static visual art pieces, raw material frames that form the basis of video edits and time based media, and custom built, interactive and responsive visual/motion installations.
An artist that philosophically deals with both the persistence of cultural/ancestral memory, televisual psychology and the influence of technological aparatus on our anthropologic makeup, Jesse’s work speaks to both a familiar, yet alien inner landscape.
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