Ryan Cherewaty

Ryan CHEREWATY (Canada) is a media artist from Toronto currently based in Rotterdam. His works have been shown in places such as IFFR (Rotterdam), Sterischer Herbst (Graz), Interaccess (Toronto), EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam) and TENT (Rotterdam). He graduated cum laude from the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam) with a master’s degree in Lens-based Media. Working with animation, CGI and installation, he links techniques such as Artificial Intelligence and virtual reality to age-old mythological stories and rituals. By focusing on the elusive consciousness of humans and the contradiction between body and mind, Cherewaty wonders whether our use of today’s digital technology resembles the mystifying role of old religions.