Sean Snyder

Using different media, Sean Snyder's installations explore aspects of urban space and architecture as signs of economic and political structures. They also address media and cultural domination. Whether producing material, reprocessing existing material or archival research - his work traces the visual codes that effect the built environment. His research picks up where other sources of information leave off, engaging the viewer in an interconnected narrative of seemingly fictional facts and coincidences. Much of Snyder's research-based work examines how images are projected from one continent to another to become urban realities. Snyders works experiment with montage as a working method and push it to extremes. In many of his photo collections, books and installations Snyder produces jump cuts of images from different cityscapes. In the project Urban Planning Documentation/Road Runner and Coyote (1997-1999) images and text are juxtaposed with clips from the cartoon Road Runner and Coyote to parody urban planning manuals and vandalism protection publications.

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Sean Snyder