Alyssa Bornn, still from "More, Less, About The Same," 2019, video, 7:30
Winnipeg-based artist Alyssa Bornn is the winner of the $5,000 Emerging Digital Artists Award, Canada’s award for critical experimentation in digital media.
Her work, More, Less, About The Same, is a compilation of texts written and sequenced on a Videonics Titlemaker 2000, a piece of equipment designed to subtitle videos.
Bornn uses it as a machine for writing as well as a mechanism to animate text and images —a highly inefficient process by present-day standards. Rather than a textual accompaniment to visual input, her transcriptions are the visual input. The use of outmoded technology prompts viewers to consider what is gained and lost in our evolving relationship with digital media.
Four finalists, Colton Hash, Ahreum Lee, Claire Scherzinger and Jordyn Stewart, each take home $1,000.
An exhibition of works by the five finalists continues at Trinity Square Video in Toronto until Sept. 28.
Source: Emerging Digital Artists Award