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Daniel Jackson works in live performance and digital media at the intersection of technology, interactivity, and identity. His work interrogates the possibilities that new technologies provide for creating surprising experiences that question our understanding of the world. His recent work includes An Old Ruinous Vault, With A Strong Grated Door, Through Which The Moon-Beams Are Gleaming, exhibited as part of San Antonio’s CAM Perennial group art show, and Basement Complex Suite 102 at Jump-Start Performance Co.
In addition to creating and producing his own work, Daniel has spent time working in various capacities with Andrew Schneider, Young Jean Lee, Radiohole, The Wooster Group, and Jump-Start Performance Co. Currently, Daniel splits his time between the bay area of California and his home of San Antonio, Texas.
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Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Multi-Day Artist Residency; Theatre: Cabaret/Variety, Drama, Musicals; Visual Art: Interactive, Site-Specific
Artist Medium: Audio/Sound; Computer; Internet, Video, Projection, Custom Electronics
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
My work uses computational media (VR, AR, game engines, code) and performance to bend traditional linear narrative into new shapes: infinite loops, evolving cycles, rhizomatic distributions, forking paths, an archive, a cell. Physically, this manifests as single and multiple channel installations (both interactive and non-interactive), traditional headset-based VR, and performance.
I frequently steal ideas and strategies from genre work (horror, science fiction, fantasy) to present extremes of human and non-human experience. I believe imagined futures, presents, and pasts excavate a space of opportunity in our real, tangible lives. And sometimes, the best way to tell a story is through metaphor.
