BILL BYRNE
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My work about building a post-human world. I create an artificial 
environment that contains a narrative. I make a humorous and 
disturbing look at our future where the distinctions between man 
and machine and microcosms and macrocosms have become completely 
blurred. I place the viewer in a situation where they cannot tell 
if they are viewing a cell through a microscope or looking at the 
internal structure of a complicated machine. The narratives in my 
pieces concentrate on the processes of creation, destruction, 
generation and regeneration, the cyclical processes common in both 
nature and machine.

All of my images come from digital photographs of objects discarded 
by the real world, technology that is now dead. Nothing here is 
drawn, all animated and montaged from photography. The soundtrack 
from the animated piece is processed field recordings of sounds 
anywhere from water sloshing in a cup to the internal ambiance of a 
broken VCR.

My point in creating Carriers was to look at one commonality between 
biology and mechanics - the cycle in which things are created, 
destroyed, and created and destroyed again. Environments exist they 
become populated. The population sustain themselves. After a while, 
problems occur, flaws appear and eventually cause the system to slow 
down. These kinds of events are universal, be it in a liver or a 
dishwasher, this cycle exists. Events cycle in both the smallest cell 
and the most elaborate computer. I feel that there is a drama and 
beauty in this kind of universal occurrence, and with this animation 
I wanted to keep my absurd view of the future grounded in a reality 
that is inescapable.