E-project: Altered States – PDN

Like many of us, Josh Azzarella was affected by 9/11—but in a way only a visual artist could be. The constant loop of images from the day playing on TV and, later, the removal of the Twin Towers from movies and videos fired his artistic imagination. He became interested in exploring how personal and collective memory is evoked by removing imagery. This led the award-winning New York-based artist to try digitally modifying videos and stills to see whether they retained the essence of the parts that had been removed from the original.

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