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Jibade-Khalil Huffman Moving Image
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Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and writer whose video and photo works use constructed as well as found, archival material and contemporary ephemera to address memory and language particular to race and visibility.
Often working site-specifically, his work takes the form of installation, video, projections, photographic light boxes, and photo collages printed on layered transparencies and paper. More recently his practice and research have expanded to include participatory works utilizing video game technology. Foregrounding the materiality of digital media and its degradation over time, Huffman’s approach dissolves explicit meaning in order to reconstitute it as objects in perpetual flux.
Huffman derives much of his practice from this very intersection of writing, poetry, found media and common speech, often cutting, sampling and shifting bits of video and excerpts of text into new formats. The idea of erasure—of certain voices, people, and ideas—as subject matter and as technique is central to his practice, in building up and removing layers of material in his videos and two dimensional collages. In addition to an art practice, he is the author of several volumes of poems and currently at work on a volume of hybrid essay poems. Huffman lives and works in Los Angeles where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at UC Irvine.
Often working site-specifically, his work takes the form of installation, video, projections, photographic light boxes, and photo collages printed on layered transparencies and paper. More recently his practice and research have expanded to include participatory works utilizing video game technology. Foregrounding the materiality of digital media and its degradation over time, Huffman’s approach dissolves explicit meaning in order to reconstitute it as objects in perpetual flux.
Huffman derives much of his practice from this very intersection of writing, poetry, found media and common speech, often cutting, sampling and shifting bits of video and excerpts of text into new formats. The idea of erasure—of certain voices, people, and ideas—as subject matter and as technique is central to his practice, in building up and removing layers of material in his videos and two dimensional collages. In addition to an art practice, he is the author of several volumes of poems and currently at work on a volume of hybrid essay poems. Huffman lives and works in Los Angeles where he is an Assistant Professor of Art at UC Irvine.