“We use our senses to help us understand our position in space-time. Vision is our main sensory input for the world we exist in. The human brain has some built-in limits beyond which it cannot properly interpret visual information. I use this limit to express the workings of the subconscious. Also embodied in my work is a sense of scientific realism; the elements and information of a natural system can be reduced and modulated and still exhibit characteristics of that natural system and to me this is proof that information is a true and robust representation of our universe. Clean lines, simple shapes, self-similarity on varying scales, and pure, changing color are my palette; information systems and data-sets are my subject matter. I use mathematics and engineering to formulate physical space-time distortions: displaying static images through time while squeezing and folding the images’ space into 3-dimensional layers. Using industrially prefabricated LED technology and custom firmware, I collapse space and re-map it onto the time axis. By re-displaying information in this manner I give the viewer a glimpse into space-time as seen through my eyes. It’s an automatism whereby I fold my own perception of space-time in an effort to understand what it means to exist.” - Craig Dorety SELECT EXHIBITIONS2017 Virtual Views, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL2017 A Moon and Many Suns, Oregon Museum of Science and Innovation, Portland, OR2017 Portland Winter Light Festival, Portland, OR2017 Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL2017 Art Hack Day, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR2016 Lunar Attraction, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA2016 Art Market, San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA2015 Front Yard Back Street, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA2013 ArtSpan Preview Show, SoMArts, San Francisco, CA2013 Megashear Ranch Resident Show, San Francisco, CA2013 FnF festival, Upper Lake, CA2012 TV of Tomorrow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA GRANTS/AWARDS2013 The California Foundation for the Advancement of the Electronic Arts, San Francisco, CA2012 Awesome Foundation Grant, San Francisco, CA2008 Editor's Choice Award, MakerFaire, San Mateo, CA