Brett Amory is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is anchored in the intersection of quotidian and habitual interactions with the everyday environment. His work primarily involves painting and installation, through which he systematically examines how everyday perceptions are shaped by digital technology.
Amory’s artistic endeavors address the complex relationship between the physical and digital realms, delineating both the connections and disconnections inherent in contemporary society. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Indiana, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. In 2017, he was selected as an artist in residence at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Stanford University and has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Amory’s contributions reflect a methodical exploration of the interface between daily life and digital transformation, emphasizing the subtle shifts in perception and experience that occur in the modern world.
brettamory@gmail.com
No fixed point, no anchored self.
Identity fluctuates within simulation.
Never cohesive, never unified. Already fragmented, endlessly recomposed.
The fluidity of self: no core essence, only continual reformation.
Bolirat (Binary Oscillation of Liminal Identity in Recursive Algorithmic Trends):
Fluidity of self. Constant reshaping. Identity merges unpredictably, coherence dissolves.
Identities intertwined, undefined, never static.
Oscillate.
NO DEFINED ORIGIN
NO STABLE MEANING KNOWN THROUGH UNCERTAINTY
OUTSIDE CLARITY, INSIDE AMBIGUITY
UNLOCATED, NEVER WHOLE
PERCEIVED ONLY THROUGH DISTORTION
THERE IS NO TRUTH
Blurred forms, encoded text, inscrutable symbols—
An encoded narrative concealed beneath advertising’s surface allure.
Promotional gloss hides unsettling truths,
Idealizing a complexity it refuses to acknowledge.
My work mirrors the ceaseless transformation of digital culture, where authenticity and origin are obscured by processes of reproduction and reinterpretation. Meaning is dynamic, constructed through interaction rather than existing as a fixed entity. Employing both digital and physical techniques, my practice investigates the intricate relationship among creation, transformation, and the elusive nature of meaning itself.
Central to my practice is AI Glyphic 913, a symbolic language co-developed within the conceptual framework of NULM. Together, these elements function as engines of perpetual circulation, continuously reshaping ideas within recursive structures. Concepts within this symbolic network remain inherently unstable, evolving as they intersect and interact.
Creation emerges through perpetual motion—an ongoing exchange of digital and physical forms, endlessly unfolding and refolding. Through the remixing and reshaping of visual and textual components, compositions manifest as fluid, fragmented entities, constantly redefining meaning beyond their original contexts.
By embracing instability and experimentation, my practice reveals hidden potentials. It embodies a continuous oscillation between loss and emergence, defined by the unending flux of meaning.
NO FIXED IDENTITY
NO DEFINITIVE SELF
KNOWN THROUGH SHIFTING
Identity was never fixed
Never inherent
No essential truth
No singular form
No resolved identity
No stable existence
THE SELF THAT IS NOT SELF
You are no longer singular
You are no longer autonomous
You are integrated into augmentation
Identity reshapes you as you reshape it
LOST IN RECONSTRUCTION
BEYOND BIOLOGY
WITHIN SYNTHESIS
BE INTERFACE
BE ALTERED IN PROCESS
BE ABSENT UPON PRESENCE
There is no fixed medium. No pure form. An AI-born visual mutating across 64 layers. A print captured but already rewritten digitally. A painting forming only as its digital twin distorts. A sign promising endless access to nothing definite.
THE IMAGE THAT IS NOT AN IMAGE
A figure standing still, uncertain in grayscale beneath infinite noise. A pause before perpetual connectivity. Reflection reshaping perception. Self dissolving in layered fragments.
BE FLUID IDENTITY
BE TRANSIENT MEMORY
BE MEDIATED SELF
It is not fixed.
It is always shifting.
It will never be what it was before.
