Eric Corriel Studios

multidisciplinary art studio • immersive and interactive public art • art activism • digital/electronic art • nyc

Artist Statement(s)

Digital & Electronic Work

Photograph a building facade at night where, projected onto its street-level windows, is a eye-level view of small ocean waves, presumably bobbing up and down. In front of the building are two parked cars.
~/Dropbox, Enter The Machine 1.0

Eric Corriel expands the boundaries of portraiture from human subjects to digital entities by creating organically digital portraits of files, folders, apps, and information systems. Each portrait is an algo-human work where the form is created algorithmically while color, composition, animation, and sound design are crafted by hand. The work argues that portraiture—long used to confer dignity and significance on its subjects—must now expand to the digital entities that increasingly define our lives.

Series: Enter The Machine 1.0, Enter The Machine 2.0, Enter The Machine 3.0

Installations

Photograph a building facade at night where, projected onto its street-level windows, is a eye-level view of small ocean waves, presumably bobbing up and down. In front of the building are two parked cars.
Water Will Be Here, Photo credit: Keiko Niwa

As an installation artist working in the public realm, Eric creates interactive and immersive video installations that explore climate change by transposing far-away geographies into city centers, social justice and surveillance by making the experience of being watched and targeted visceral, and the relationship between bodies and space by transforming movement into spectacle.

Works: Water Will Be Here, Glaciers Will Not Be There, Fire Will Be Here, Targeted, Gyre, Pool Portals, Citysphere, Video Salon, The Over and the Under, Lightbox, Light Bikes, Excite Bikes, Bicycle Race, The Watcher, Yellow Forest

Activism & Participation

Photograph at a protest march of a woman holding a tiny trump (2-foot-tall cardboard cutout of trump) that has 'Enemy of the People' stamped on it in white ink
tiny trump at a protest march, Photo courtesy of Eric Corriel Studios

As an activist artist, Eric creates products that allow individuals to express their values in publicly visible and meaningful ways. Using the levers of capitalism—mass manufacturing, supply chain administration, warehouse, and distribution logistics, inventory management—he creates cheap, accessible, and open-source products that can be produced and deployed at scale to create on-the-ground, political and environmental grassroots activist movements that propagate themselves in the physical landscape as well as on social media.

Works: 450YRS, tiny trump