Philip Baljeu is a self-taught video artist living in Toronto, Canada that will be joining the Institute for Electronic Arts from January 14th to 25th. Working with the mediums of film photography, video, and electronics, they make new media works that explore sculptural forms on electronic displays.
They create images using a subset of Analog Video Synthesis called Scan Processing. This type of video synthesis allows them to manipulate the once rectangular images into new forms, an origami of the raster. Bending or folding the image plane. Extruding it around the contours of a face. Dissecting it and rearranging it. They start by capturing traditional photographic images like portraits or still life. The images are then inputted to the video synthesizer where they are manipulated, augmented, and distorted. There is also the possibility of creating completely abstract forms without any source image, a pure synthetic sculpture on the screen.
