[ISEA2020] Artist Statement: Gregory Garvey — Blasey Ford V Kavanaugh and The split brain interface

Artist Statement

The story of the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and the rebuttal of Brett Kavanaugh as part of the Senate Nomination Hearings for Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court is retold using the split-brain interface. The design of the split-brain interface was first developed for the interactive documentary Anita und Clarence in der Hölle (trans. “Anita and Clarence in Hell”): An Opera for Split-Brains in Modular Parts. This project used documentary video from the 1991 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. This experimental interface creates an `enhanced’ and an engaging aesthetic experience. [source: ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8811538]

  • Greg Garvey (US) has been creating interactive new media art since the late nineteen seventies. He has also worked in the games industry and is the founder and first Director of the Program in Game Design & Development at Quinnipiac University. He has held previous appointments as an Associate Artist of the Digital Media Center for the Arts at Yale University; Chair of the Department of Design Art at Concordia University in Montréal where he also was a member of the Artistic Organizing Committee for ISEA’95 in Montréal. After graduate work at MIT, he held the appointment as Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT.