Andrea DeFelice

Bio:
Currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY; Has exhibited in the
U.S. and in Europe, participated in artist residencies, and part of a
New York-based artist collaborative. Received MFA from Queens College
in 2008, and awarded grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
and Change, Inc.

I work primarily in video installation, mixed media and performance
art. My work tends to generate out of personal experience, then
combines with investigation and stubborn opinion. Since I’m very
interested in how things work and how people engage with experiences,
the work becomes a more scientific/analytical approach to decipher the
area of interest.

These ‘areas’ have included communication, happenstance, sensory
perception, devices, identity, fear, and existence. A breakdown of
specific subjects include the psychology of adjustment, deafness and
methods of non-verbal communication, hacking electronics and working
with sensor technology, synesthesia, bad habits and the body, Google,
knife-throwing, and scientific methodologies [i.e. magnetism, analog,
and downshock]. Key elements I care to demonstrate are emotional
response, and the conscious recognition and interpretation of sensory
stimuli that serve as a basis for understanding, learning, or for
motivating a particular action or reaction. All the while I try to
make sense of things logically and also mildly mock them. I let the
work become a diagnostic representation, occasionally charged with

unruliness.aedefelice@gmail.com