Eddie Lohmeyer
Eddie Lohmeyer is an Assistant Professor of Visual Rhetoric and Information Design at Clemson University. His research and creative practice explore aesthetic and technical developments within histories of digital media. Using deconstructive approaches such as glitch and collage, his animations and video installations have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently at Bucknell University Art Galleries, Milan Machinima Festival, Platform 101 Gallery (Tehran, Iran), and the Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen, DK). Drawing from pop culture debris, Buddhism, art history, as well as traditions of magic and the occult, Lohmeyer’s art explores intersections of digital worldbuilding, speculative ecologies, and modes of spiritual reflection to think through environmental futures that counter global inequalities and the climate devastation of late capitalism. Through experimental animation and the vibrancy of kinetic digital forms, Lohmeyer uses glitch practices and artificial intelligence engines to imagine alternative worlds that decenter the human and value emergent forms of plant and animal intelligence.