Casey Carter

Artist Statement

My practice explores psychological and emotional experience within overarching legal, administrative, and technological structures of governance and representation. Weaving together intimate portraits, real and imagined spaces and landscapes, and evidentiary documents and media, my work confronts diverse but intersecting spheres of cultural and political identity. Informed by an interdisciplinary background in photography, physics, and architecture, I draw on both aesthetic and didactic intuitions to address concrete narratives without interpretive mandates. My approach seeks to expand non-fiction media beyond the expository, observational, and poetic modes, exploring themes of governmentality, geography, environmentalism, and the personal dimensions of our technopolitical age.

Casey Carter Two Prisons HD video 18min 2019 Hong Kong Film Art Festival

Bio

Casey Carter is a documentary-based artist and interdisciplinary designer whose work engages nonfiction storytelling in film, photography, data visualization, and cartography. He was a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Film/Video Artist Fellow, a 2019 Points North Fellow, and a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow. He holds a BS in Physics and BS in Photography from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. He is the project director for the What Is Missing? Foundation - Maya Lin’s multimedia memorial to 6th extinction.

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