On Arnold Dreyblatt (taken from here):
I was born in New York in 1953. I am a composer and visual artist. 18 years ago, I came to Europe for the first time on a work stipend. Since then, I have lived here most of the time, with my principal residence in Berlin. In recent years, I have developed projects linking text, image, and space with one another. These projects have been realized in a variety of forms, for example, as a contemporary opera, an interactive performance, an art installation, and in book form.
My work has grown out of several found historical texts which I have deconstructed and reconstructed repeatedly over the past 15 years. My focus has also been on processes of "archiving and storage," on modes of "inscription," as well as on the technologies and methods that make possible the external preservation of our histories and memories.
Afterthoughts:
His works deal largely with the idea of archiving memory and how we remember. I like that he touches on the ephemerality of memories even though we have all the technology to make them "permanent". I derive a "or-so-you-think" attitude— you might think you are capturing them and cementing this memory but it is not actually the case.
Works are very tech-driven, not a fan of the aesthetics.
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