About — Wade Warman

ARTIST STATEMENT

My time-based works explore questions of morality, theology, and the human condition by merging new technologies with traditional methods. The aim of my time-based work is to perform by the magic of “ghosts in the machine.” The kinetic connects with the lifeless, through both digital and analog means. My form-based sculptures explore aspects of the human condition by arresting visual movement in abstract and static forms. It is through novel ways of making, combining emerging technologies with traditional construction methods, that I am able to pursue a variety of concepts and material practices.

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

As an educator, I have three goals. My first goal is to provide students with an understanding of how to incorporate emerging digital technologies into their processes. The aim is for students to gain proficiency with the methods, equipment, and applications that each technology can afford them as well as what the limitations are. I strive to ensure students are provided with an understanding of how utilizing technology can be both a means and an end.

My second goal is to guide students in the use of visual research methods including object-based approaches. I want students to have the ability to examine, critique, and apply skills related to principles of art and design, interactivity, and visual and audio composition. An essential part of utilizing visual research methods and analysis is not only for researching the work of others but, importantly, the ability to critique their own work.

My third goal is for students to further develop their personal brands and voices. As they grow as artists and designers, I aim to foster each student's ability to consider materials, processes, and techniques while working more independently. At the center of this goal is guiding the student's confidence so that they can apply these lessons to future bodies of work within historical and theoretical contexts. Ultimately, as a result, the student will discover their ability to conduct further research and create new and compelling designs.