{"id":35,"date":"2020-03-02T06:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottaigner.com\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2020-03-02T06:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T06:23:46","slug":"artist-educator-cinephile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"Artist Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Movies. Cinema. Film. Motion Pictures. Fame. Celebrity. Nostalgia. These concepts lead the direction of my current studio work, which is a response to my love of movies and movie watching. Through my practice, I want to investigate the intensity of the movie watching experience and explore the affection one can have for a movie and the inter- and extratextual relationships of movies. At times, I feel that I am reinterpreting, reevaluating, and reinventing the very things that I hold dear to myself as an art process. I consider myself not only a consumer, watcher, recipient, and victim [of mass media and pop culture], but also an agent&nbsp;of that culture. I am interested in the role that I play in this cultural landscape and ideas of hyperreality (the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy). I am interested in how powerful nostalgia for something can be. I am interested in challenging the notion that watching movies is&nbsp;only a leisurely activity.&nbsp;<br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Through my work, I aim to share my collective experiences with my viewers &#8211; to point them toward the passion that I have for the close examination of this slice of pop culture. By treating film AS nostalgia, the experience of being a film lover can be filtered through whatever feeling or emotion evokes the personal pleasure of a happy memory.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies. Cinema. Film. Motion Pictures. Fame. Celebrity. Nostalgia. These concepts lead the direction of my current studio work, which is a response to my love of movies and movie watching. Through my practice, I want to investigate the intensity of the movie watching experience and explore the affection one can have for a movie and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaigner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}