Bay Area video and performance artist Anthony Discenza is
"morbidly" fascinated by the proliferation of mediated
imagery
in our lives. The omnipresence of this material, he believes,
renders it effectively invisible and particularly insidious. As
re-
presentation has become increasingly problematic for him,
Discenza has become interested in creating situations in which
mediated imagery is simultaneously presented and withheld.
In his most recent work, he utilizes 1-2 second clips from
television and cheesy action films to create kaleidoscopic layers
of information where recognizable imagery decays into the ab-
straction of electronic artifact. A schizophrenic viewing experience
results, in which the viewer feels at once a familiarity and
alienation.
