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BIO Kris Force is a composer, performer and visual artist living and working in the San Francisco bay area and exhibiting and performing throughout the United States and Europe. She is a solo artist and a collaborator with select groups and individuals. Force works across several mediums including music, sound, drawing, painting, performance, video and digital technologies. Predominant themes in her work include embodiment, materiality and remediation. The transformation of media characteristics through processes of decay, duplication, pausation, juxtaposition, materiality, signal and transmission, and the possibility of capturing the liminal moment of transformation, is an ongoing inquiry. Force engages both old and new mediums, classical techniques and new technologies. The nuances and implications of these juxtapositions intrigue her as well as the thresholds between human and material agency. Force is interested in the medium taking on its own intelligence, apart from her creation, thereby employing improvisation techniques, human actors, living signals, generative algorithms, real time data streams and sympathetic resonances. krisforce.com @krisforce |
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STATEMENT
Engaging with both image and sound, I aspire to create a hybrid and heterogeneous practice by incorporating both material and immaterial media and representing both classical and contemporary views and concerns. I work with old and new media, classical techniques and new technologies. The transformation of media characteristics through means of decay, duplication, pausation, materiality, signal and transmission is a primary and ongoing concern for me. My electroacoustic compositions regularly include extended string works remediated through digital processes and juxtaposed with electronic noises, living signals and human actors. My visual works often originate from tactile objects, paint and paper or photographic stills. When I combine image and sound into a poly-sensory experience, the merged materialty often transform the original meaning in a compelling way. This aspect of my practice brings continued discovery. Of corresponding interest is the role of indeterminacy in the transformation of the media characteristic therefore, I often employ sources that act with their own agency such as data streams, living signals, sympathetic resonances and generative algorithms. Through remediation of the physical, digital and temporal, I seek to expose the liminal intervals of transformation.
Engaging with both image and sound, I aspire to create a hybrid and heterogeneous practice by incorporating both material and immaterial media and representing both classical and contemporary views and concerns. I work with old and new media, classical techniques and new technologies. The transformation of media characteristics through means of decay, duplication, pausation, materiality, signal and transmission is a primary and ongoing concern for me. My electroacoustic compositions regularly include extended string works remediated through digital processes and juxtaposed with electronic noises, living signals and human actors. My visual works often originate from tactile objects, paint and paper or photographic stills. When I combine image and sound into a poly-sensory experience, the merged materialty often transform the original meaning in a compelling way. This aspect of my practice brings continued discovery. Of corresponding interest is the role of indeterminacy in the transformation of the media characteristic therefore, I often employ sources that act with their own agency such as data streams, living signals, sympathetic resonances and generative algorithms. Through remediation of the physical, digital and temporal, I seek to expose the liminal intervals of transformation.
