michael lasater

All of my video art pieces are flat screen computer compositions intended for gallery exhibition. I work with video, sound, music, photography, film, painting, text – anything digital or that can be digitized.  I use video, a time medium, to isolate and explore a subject, event, or moment in time. I often build pieces as time structures referencing strategies and techniques, especially counterpoint, employed in music composition.  I derive quite a lot from Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez, and, especially, György Ligeti, whose conception of music as frozen time, time “confined in the present moment,” informs virtually all of my work.  Among many painters I return again and again to Gerhard Richter, who often bases his work on photographs and other preexisting media, and is a master of both figurative and abstract art.