Sarkisian, Peter
Peter Sarkisian is an American new-media artist whose work combines video projection and sculpture to create a hybrid form of multi-media installation.
Sarkisian studied photography and film at the California Institute of the Arts and the American Film Institute in the late 1980’s, and then began working with video as a sculptural element in the mid 90’s. The underlying premise of his work remains committed to using video as an instrument against commercialized media, namely television, in order to transform the act of watching video from an experience-killing endeavor to an experience-creating one. He accomplishes this by joining sculptural elements with projected video imagery to create audio/visual illusions that trap the viewer between conflicting interpretations, thereby forcing a state of self-awareness that is otherwise absent while watching television.
Episode:
Peter Sarkisian, Michael Cina, The Beauty Box by Robert Hodge & Philip Pyle, Nick Cave