Brandon Morse Lecture

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Fine Arts Building, Room 249 at 7 pm.
530 Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306

Brandon Morse is a Washington, DC based artist who works in video and video installation and portrays the degradation and collapse of organized systems. His process revolves around the creation of rule-based simulations of 3-D environments using animation software.  Objects and environments are created in the software and assigned structural traits and physical behaviors and are then subjected to computer-generated forces such as gravity, turbulence and wind, which are also created within the software environment.  The resulting videos are a record of these processes playing out over time wherein architectural and organic structures lose their coherence and slowly decay over time towards a chaotic, disorganized state.

Morse has shown his work in video, video installation and sound art in museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, and Asia. He lives and works in the Washington, DC area and is a professor of Digital Media at the University of Maryland.