Marleigh Belsley

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About

Marleigh Belsley (b. Chicago, IL 2001) is interested in the impact of technology on how we understand ourselves, each other, and our environment. 

She is interested in what – on a microscopic level – happens through the process of sound and image capture, and how this can begin to reveal the complex, intertwined systems of the climate crisis and digital technology. 

She considers how video offers the opportunity to listen deeply and look again, both through process and the video itself. Distorting sound and image through technology, she brings the abstraction, reduction, and digitization inherent to any sound or image capture to the forefront to be examined, questioned, and criticized. 

By revealing video’s constructed nature, making the distance between the viewer, the image, and the original environment palpable, her work can offer an opportunity to shift from passive viewership to critical reflection on our everyday consumption of digital media.