Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK whose artworks have been showcased in over 150 exhibitions and 25 countries. Artistically, his current interests concern the simultaneous utilisation and dissection of new technology as a means to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the digital realm. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.
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{transcription} examines the mediated histories generated by today’s news corporations and reflects upon our collective preoccupation with real-time information generation, distribution and access. Given the developed world’s countless network structures and our current state of data saturation, has news media evolved beyond mere information source and become a new form of cultural stimulant?

Events that usually stream towards us in a rapid, undifferentiated flow become moments of quiet contemplation that can be viewed and re-viewed in one's own time. The user can apply an array of colored filters, like gels used on theater sets-one can, in fact, choose to view events ‘through rose-tinted glasses.’ Depending on the color, the moving image either partially obscures or reveals the 'truth', i.e. word. One can choose to literally tone down the rhetoric, or inflame the masses. One filter filters out the others [...] Anton Foudimov, Digital Visions 2004, 05/2004