About the Artist
CB Cooke is an artist who focuses his energies on the integration of digital art and real world objects. His work includes interactive new media installations, mixed media painting, and web-based art. Digital and film-based photography serve as the base for all his artworks. Mr. Cooke has exhibited at numerous New York City venues including: Creative Time's Art In The Anchorage, Ricco-Maresca Gallery, The Alternative Museum, and Paperveins 1998. Mr. Cooke also presides over The Glyph Media Group, an interactive design firm based in New York City.
Artist's Statement
"daddie is a very personal work that explores my father's influence on
my psyche. In this piece I struggle with the stringent work ethic that he
passed onto me; he forgot to tell me that sometimes you can stop and
relax. As I exorcise the demons that this has produced for me, they
emerge in my artwork. daddie was shot on a train during an excursion to
see my father on Father's Day, June, 1999. The camera functioned as a
mediator between my resentment toward him and my need to confront the
legacies he passed onto me. The images that you see were shot in one
continuous sequence, both while the train was sitting still and moving.
They used up an entire 4MB disk containing 44 images. The words were
recorded two months later directly into my computer as an exercise in
stream of consciousness. Listen to what I say and you'll be told about
the whole experience. Once I had the words captured in the computer I
knew exactly which sequence of images they belonged with. The result is
daddie."
– cb cooke
The
Glyph Media Group
cbcooke.com
