^{Toban Nichols, is a deconstructivist artist living in Los Angeles. His work has been seen internationally in SCOPE New York, SCOPE Basel, the Digital FringeFestival in Melbourne Australia, Les Territoires in Montreal, as well as The Seattle Art Museum.}

^{After earning a Bachelorsdegree in painting, he moved west to study New Media at the SanFrancisco Art Institute in California where he recieved an MFA in Digital Media and Videography.}

^{More recently he wasgranted a residency with the ExperimentalTelevision Center in New York, and awarded the Juror'sPick at the ArtHouse Film Festival in 2009 for his video entitled"BATTLESTATIONS!!"}

^{More of his work can be seen at}

^{www.tobannichols.com.}

The work creates and utilizes a language of images.This language is manipulated into a motion/video format that aims to connect,destroy, and reconstruct. The resulting images raise questions about thecontamination of art by technology and whether a mechanical art-making processremoves the soul from a work of art. I am concerned with altering theperception of the viewer with the sublimation of images through the viewingdevice and installation.

My work has a narrativerelated to popular media, it is about the texture, light, and motion of surfaceby investigating a specific moment through lengthening and magnifying it. Thisis achieved by using sampled and manipulated video of scrambled cable signal,sonograms, or found footage.

 I make decisions on subject matter through my ongoingfascination with nostalgia and attention span, or my overriding obsession withcertain phrases,  people, andobjects. I listen to songs, watch pieces of video, say certain things, or eat something until I am sick ofit and no longer feel the thrill of the obsession.