{"id":49304,"date":"2000-01-25T16:37:28","date_gmt":"2000-01-25T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=49304"},"modified":"2024-01-18T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T13:52:49","slug":"justin-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/justin-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-52924\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson-350x350.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson-290x290.png 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson-120x120.png 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/02\/justin_watson.png 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Justin Watson (b. 1984) received his MFA from the University of Utah in Sculpture Intermedia (2016). Watson uses multimedia installations and digital processing as a platform for iconoclasm, appropriation, and systems design to investigate power and identity as transmitted through new media technologies. Watson has shown extensively throughout Utah, including exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, (UMOCA), Central Utah Art Center (CUAC), Bountiful Davis Art Center (BDAC), Finch Lane Gallery, and NOX Contemporary.<\/p>\n<p>Artist Statement<br \/>\n&#8220;My work emerges through physical and digital practices exploring post-internet identity, technological advancement, geopolitical presence and the sinister subtexts to humankind\u2019s search for utopic transcendence. I assimilate images, 3D models, field recordings, online archives and rendered animations into multichannel installations that hybridize nonlinear writing, photography, film, and sculpture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Links<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/justin-.-watson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instagram.com\/justin-.-watson<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/justinwatson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/justinwatson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49305\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-1200x905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-1200x905.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-350x264.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Smelter_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in.jpg 1403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-49306 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-1200x904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-350x264.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Palace_Digital_Print_on_Metal_16.25inx12.25in.jpg 1403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Watson (b. 1984) received his MFA from the University of Utah in Sculpture Intermedia (2016). Watson uses multimedia installations and digital processing as a platform for iconoclasm, appropriation, and systems design to investigate power and identity as transmitted through new media technologies. 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