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Andrew Frangella is a media artist working primarily with sound and expanded cinema. His work explores nuances of decay and the poetics of what lingers, what is inaccessible to the senses, and that which cannot be expressed alone in language. His films and expanded cinema works reflect on worldly disconnection and the tension between self and society.
His practice is grounded in a DIY ethos; using circuit-bent video and audio gear, tape machines, and crudely engineered media devices; which he repurposes as tools for artistic discovery. These start at a location, a source; from which, often through invocation of a gnostic state, selections are made.
Rather than rooting his practice in a fixed studio setting, his work seeks to meet each environment on its own terms; allowing the work to emerge from their conditions. His work has been developed through building custom tools, composing with noise, silence, or ambience, and through seeking forms which remain purposefully unresolved.
His practice treats the incomplete not as failure, but as the fidelity of experience, place, and the blur which lives between them. Frangella’s solo and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally at festivals and galleries such as Vladimir Film Festival in Fažana, Croatia; ITHEX in Ithaca, NY; Revolutions Per Minute in Cambridge MA; and Photometria in Motion in Ioannina, Greece.
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