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Brandon S. Gellis is a digital artist, Educator, and maker. His work IS concerned with how people construct individual and communITY identities & develop networks rich with cultural memory. He wants to challenge the status quo to change viewerS’ PERCEPTIONS AND perspectiveS.
As a new media artist his creative practice is deeply rooted in his love of working across digital and analog media to explore and create speculative narratives and aesthetics through generative and computer visualizations, virtual, augmented and mixed realities, physical computing, 3D-digital design & 4D motion graphics, and digitally-interactive installation.
He creates intricate, multimedia exhibitions focused on intersections art and science and experienced through digital technologies (i.e., augmented, computational and emergent-digital approaches). For Gellis, the act of digitally-manipulating moments and memories in time and place ensure temporality – altering their relevance, significance and existence – without recognition of their original state or value. Each augmented image, frame, sequence and interaction serves as a window into new, unresolved realities.
A native of California, Gellis is conscientious of politically-charged climates that exploit natural resources, suppress subcultural communities, and dampen minority experiences. Recent bodies of work investigate how people abuse the natural world with their excessive reliance on technology; how political regimes seek to suppress individuality; and how critical issues of discrimination can be combatted and explored through the use of new media tools.
In 2015, he joined the Department of Visual & Literary Arts faculty at the University of Wyoming, and in 2018 co-developed and became co-Director of the UW Center for Design Thinking. Brandon has been exhibiting art work and scholarly papers at juried national and international exhibitions and conferences since 2012. He has won multiple Juror's Choice Awards for his inventive, multi-modal artwork.