Robert Arnold was born in 1954 in New Jersey, USA, and lives in Boston where he teaches film at Boston University. He obtained a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Illinois in 1977, an MA from the University of Iowa in 1980 and a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Iowa in 1994. He has received numerous awards and fellowships and his works have been widely exhibited. Arnold's approach is based on advanced digital editing techniques, which he uses to create short videos, designed to be exhibited on a loop. His videos often use effects of sped-up spatial movement and light to manipulate the viewer's optical experience of the passing of time. Though the works are in a sense highly formal, focussing on transformations of colour, shape and form within the video image, in each video these effects are illustrative of a specific theme, ranging from the uniformity of heterosexual desire in pop culture imagery to Ancient Greek philosophical ideas.