Residency Artist - Media

Brian Springer

222 Northwood Drive
Yellow Springs, OH  45387-1924
Phone: (937) 767-2327
Email: brnspring@yahoo.com

I am a media artist who works primarily in video, sound and performance. During my last residency I helped 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders make a series of short individual video projects about an autobiographical event in their lives, such as a happy, sad or scary day at school. The students wrote, performed and recorded their respective stories and they created extended metaphors for their stories through focusing on strong visual imagery and sound effects. During my residencies I teach basic video and audio editing as a way to explore the relationships between sound, image, text, and performance. My residencies fit many of the Ohio Fine Arts Academic Standards for Theater and Content Standards in English Language Arts.

My classroom focus, like my own artwork, expands the notion of contemporary literacy to include media arts. My video documentary SPIN, deconstructed commercial television in what the NY Times called "a devastating critique of television's profound manipulativeness in the way it packages the news and politics." My latest documentary work The Disappointment challenges the viewer to rethink how histories both large and small are documented, forgotten, and integrated into the larger cultural construction of nationhood.

In 2004 I received an MFA in Art from the University of California Santa Barbara.
My work has been shown at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Germany, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Whitney Museum (NYC), the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), and the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and has been broadcast nationally in the U.K. and by over 80 PBS affiliates in the US.