Anthony Discenza

American, born 1967

BiographyAnthony Discenza is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employing a range of media, including video projection, text, street signage, and computer generated audio, his work explores our interactions with the productions of mass media and the nature of the imagery it generates, as well as the relationship between textual and visual systems of representation. In addition to his solo work, Discenza has been one-half of the collaborative entity HalfLifers, along with longtime friend and fellow artist Torsten Z. Burns, since 1994. HalfLifers fuses humor with a low-fi, improvisational approach to explore narratives of control and crisis embedded in technologic culture. Discenza’s solo and collaborative work has been presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, Ballroom Marfa, Objectif Exhibitions, Gallery 400, The Getty Center, The Pacific Film Archive, The Australian Center for the Moving Image, and The Whitney Biennial. His work has garnered critical attention in Artforum, Artweek, and ArtReview, among other publications, and is included in the permanent distribution catalog of the Video Databank of Chicago. Discenza received a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the California College of Art. He has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 1994.

(https://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/anthony-discenza, https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/adiscenza)

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