Garfield Benjamin is currently undertaking a doctoral research studentship into the role of art in confronting the subject as gap between digital and physical worlds, under Prof. Dew Harrison and Dr. Denise Doyle. Positing the individual subject itself as the space between worlds, the research focuses on the parallax of digital experience and seeks an artistic approach to the self-destructive drive necessary to expose the void of the subject and question the decentred self.
Garfield gained his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Birmingham, where he studied Music, focusing on Electroacoustic composition under Prof. Jonty Harrison. As a member of BEAST, his creative practice explored mixed media art with a noisy, abstract and expressive digital aesthetic. Influences include death metal, stochastic and fractal processes, science fiction and horror. His works have been performed in Birmingham with BEAST and SOUNDkitchen, at the RNCM, and at TU Berlin.
Research interests include the psychoanalytical cultural theory of Slavoj Žižek, the philosophy of Quantum Physics, mixed media art, the impact of digital media and art as revolution.
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2011
2010
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