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Jim Kazanjiam

Portland, Oregon

Artist Statement

I am interested in a kind of “entropic” image, an image that has the capacity to de-familiarize itself. My current work is an attempt to unravel the photograph and play with established notions of time, space, and the understanding of what gives things context.

Through fragmentation and re-composition of the photographic space, the non-linear nature of reading the image is folded in on itself. The structure of the photograph is unwound and reshuffled. This reshaping becomes an iterative process that spurs the generation of something altogether different.

Something ineffable.

Biography

Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in '92. His BFA was completed at the Kansas City Art Institute in '90. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 16 years in television and game production. Various clients he has worked with include: Nike, Adidas, NBC, CBS, HBO, NASA, HP, Intel and others. For the last 7 years he has been the art director for the computer game developer Logic Factory.

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