Looking Outwards Individuals

The artist I will be looking at is Alexander Chen. His artistic mission is to illustrate the correlations between visual art, music, and life. He creates visualizations of music he loves, and conversely, he turns visual images (like the subway map of NYC) into music. He is currently located in Massachusetts and working as a creative director at Google. I admire the subjectivity of his work, and his clear love for both mediums. I agree that visual and audial experiences go hand in hand, and it’s always amazing to me to see how other people interact with the same music differently from me. I particularly love his project turning the NYC subway into a string instrument because I’m from New York and it brings me close to home. Alexander is a capable speaker because he plays to his audience, he uses pauses and silence to pace his speech in a palatable way, and he is confident in and passionate about the work he’s speaking about.

https://www.chenalexander.com/Bio