Tangible Frequencies
Christopher Moore
Love + Hate, Life + Death, and Why? Because!
Open Space
7:30 pm, Thursday January 26th [ ongoing ]
Christopher Moore is an artist and educator whose cross-disciplinary practice ranges from commercial publication design to sculpture and media-based installation. Christopher studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art, and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999. His creative research currently focuses on real-time performance practice that merges documentary cinema, reportage, theatre, and electronic music.
Christopher has illustrated for publications both nationally and internationally, including such clients as the Globe and Mail, Labatt's, DuMaurier, and the Medical Research Council of Canada. For the past seven years, he has taught at a number of institutions across Canada, most recently, within the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Christopher currently holds the position of Assistant Professor of Fine Arts - New Media at the University of Lethbridge.
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Love + Hate, Life + Death, and Why? Because!
Love + Hate, Life + Death, and Why? Because! represent three limited edition CD multiples from an ongoing series of audio projects composed with appropriated materials obtained via peer-to-peer file sharing programs. Using single-word title searches for universal opposites, two-channel audio "conversations" have been constructed to situate the listener between conflicting dialogues.
This project engages in a critique of “intellectual property” rights and “fair use” that surround digital appropriation, and the use of peer-to-peer networks as a site of cultural dissemination. Exploiting the fragmented nature of the World Wide Web, these works use musical compositions as stand-ins for mediated communications. The selected songs represent unfulfilled desires, longing, hate, passion, and other attributes of human relationships in a condensed, exaggerated format. The resultant pairings are often satirical, dissonant, and oddly familiar, yet the listener experiences a sense of discomfort, as though they are privy to an intimate or charged encounter between strangers. My role as artist is to simply unite the disembodied messages and unrequited pleas passing through the network ether.
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