biography
Bradley Hyppa (b. 1979) received his MFA in Conceptual/Information Arts from San Francisco State University in 2007. He began experimenting with digital video while attending the University of Washington at the Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and its predecessor the Center for Advance Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH) where he earned a BA with a dual major in Digital Cinema (Cinema Studies/DXARTS) and Political Science. In 2005 he received a Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation and worked as a Research Associate in the Media Technologies Lab at Hewlett-Packard in 2006. Hyppa’s work has appeared at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SCOPE New York, State of the Image Festival, compactspace Los Angeles, and The Jersey City Museum amongst others. Outside of that, one can usually find him lounging about Alamo Square watching tourists take the same photo over and over again.

statement
The consistent goal of my art practice has been to challenge the preconceptions that situate the viewer as a passive participant. My approach is to influence the circumstances that inform operational awareness by using the information accumulated from a continuing investigation into the inherent characteristics of video to reconfigure expectations.

My current work explores the relationships and meanings of the spaces we find ourselves in. I act upon these spaces with digital video projections in order to instill new understandings of these spaces. The videos, consisting of melodic patterns composed of rendered distortions, contractions, and expansions between background and foreground, reveal an oscillation within the visual field. They signal not a definitive meaning, but rather point towards a feeling of presence escaping perception (a limiting influence), denying a conscious translation. The resulting works allow for the viewer to consider alternative narratives about space as communicated by the impressions afforded from a distribution of sensation sequenced by the experience of color and form.

HuffPost Arts Post on Pursuing a Calculated Distance
The Real and the Represented online exhibit @ Little Paper Planes

:: arbitrary rendering for an irrational space (#5d3453D) :: 2011 :: projection @ Yerba Buena Night on SFMOMA Garage and adjacent building ::