Alex Myers

I connect disparate thoughts and create surrealistic scenes by exploring the potentials of material transmutation. Surrendering to digital cannibalism, the body of my work becomes an interrogation of the violence that immersion, affect, and interactivity inflict on a self marked by grief, mortality, and displacement. Utilizing the processes and tools of mainstream digital entertainment — and leaving their own scaffolding exposed — I reconfigure these experiences into loops that mourn, ritualize, and refuse to resolve.

My research ranges wide and refuses to settle: games, architecture, violence, fear, mysticism, ambiguity, perception, movement, nature, extinction, death, and loss. I call this an interest in systems, though the term is nearly redundant — everything human is a system. It is how we think.

My methods and materials shift to meet each project's demands, though I return most often to 3D environments like Blender and Unity, tools built for entertainment that I bend toward other ends.

I have exhibited internationally since 2008, in venues spanning Interaccess in Toronto; NP3 in Groningen; the Lab for Electronic Art and Performance in Berlin; Vesal Art Gallery in Shiraz, Iran; the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee; and, most recently, the Norwegian Digital Art Biennale in Bergen. My work has been recognized with the Provincié Groningen Kunst en Cultuur Prijs in 2009 and 2014, the Electric Objects Artist Grant in 2016, and Best Interactive at the Austin Music Video Festival in 2017. I have held residencies at NP3 in Groningen and the Tallgrass Arts Residency in Kansas, and the Omaha Entertainment and Arts Awards has nominated me for Best New Media Artist six times, most recently in 2021, 2022, and 2024.

I earned an MFA with honors with a concentration in Interactive Media & Environments from The Frank Mohr Institute in 2009. I was raised half in Los Angeles, California, and half in Omaha, Nebraska, where I currently serve as Program Director & Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Computer Science, Design and Journalism at Creighton University.

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