I am a media artist/researcher interested in the proliferating forms and expressive possibilities of web-based and digital cinema: database narrative, spatial montage, looping, multimedia hypertext, networked video and locative storytelling.
In my own drafting and redrafting of a poetics and practice, I am drawn to work that tries to pluralize narrative sequences. If an idea or story can be generated from a single sequence of images, what might be generated with multiple, linked sequences in a database? How does a non-linear juxtaposition of micro-narratives alter our sense of time and space? What new cinema forms can we grow with our new media tools? Most of my material is captured from daily life, but it is in post-production that I try to push beyond continuity to open up a temporal and spatial sense that is multiple and generative.
BIO
Will Luers is a media artist, writer and educator living in Portland, Oregon. In 2010, he was awarded the The Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship to work on his database documentary, The Father Divine Project. His video art has recently been selected for the Media Arts Show at the 2010 and 2008 ELO Conferences. Will currently teaches multimedia authoring and digital storytelling at the Digital, Technology and Culture department at Washington State University Vancouver, where in 2008 he was an artist-in-residence creating Locative Media work with students. In 2005, he won Nantucket Film Festival and Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay. Will has over twenty years experience making and teaching about digital media and the moving image. An early adopter of social media, he was named a pioneer in videoblogging in the Forbes.com Top Technology Trends (2004) and in The New York Times (2006).
w l u e r s @ g m a i l . c o m
503-975-3254
Portland, Oregon
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