Meghana Iyer
Media Arts
Through the use of analog mechanisms, my experimental video practice explores themes of the self, materiality, and punk subcultures. The progression of technology has been fast-paced and confusing to navigate—trying to situate my relationship to it, and where it belongs in my life has been challenging. I find that there is a sense of anxiety present while working with digital media and being heavily immersed in an accelerating digital world. As a counterpoint to this digital inundation, I work with technologies primarily used in the 1970s/80s/90s and early 2000s and with Glass. I appreciate that many of these systems have analogue components, and as I continue my investigations with these mechanisms, I am also able to confront the uncertainty that remains between my personal affiliation with the digital world. I also work with Glass for similar reasons. There is a real life element to how the Glass functions with technology that I appreciate and I try to find ways to combine these mediums through sculpture and installation time based practices.
Broken, Forgotten and Replaced
Titled Broken, Forgotten and Replaced is a multi-media immersive installation consisting of two smashed windshields, light projection, video projection, wire, and metal clamps and a soundscape. These two windshields remain in conversation with one another as the work strives to showcase the function of windshields and the way they contribute to the experiences we have in vehicles.
