Biography
Andrew Charles Edman (b. 1987) is a new media artist and photographer based in Detroit, Michigan. His practice examines the connection between visual stimuli and emotional response through the psychological phenomena of pareidolia and synesthesia. Informed by personal trauma from racial injustice, his artwork creates conceptual environments for cognitive release.
”Through still and moving pictures, my multi-media practice creates meaningful focus to abstract shapes and colors through pareidolia (seeing specific images in random visual patterns.). I am a synesthete whose cross-neural responses produce sounds as shapes and colors. My novel perception creates artwork that resonates in an infinitely individual way.
Growing up with a Black and Lebanese mother and an Irish father, my experience with racism is multi-dimensional and informs my work through relation to those who have suffered similarly to me. I choose to not be explicit with this connection, as I want the viewer to release their trauma within the spaces I create; whether that be a physical environment or prolonged exposure to a short-form digital loop.”
Andrew completed his BS in Psychology at Arizona State University in 2012 and received his Recording Arts degree from the Los Angeles Recording School. His work has been shown at museums and performances around the world, including The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, New Media Art’s Neo-Shibuya Museum in Tokyo, Japan, The Music Gallery in Toronto, Canada, and a part of collections from Artpointe in Paris, France.