ARTIST STATEMENT Caleb Larsen utilizes logic-based systems to explore the intersection and divide between digital and physical space. Larsen approaches this topic obliquely through employment of installation, print, electronics, sculpture and multimedia. His work leverages the effects of language and mapping to translate life, media, and culture into a transmedia experience. It is through distortion, reduction, and manipulation that Larsen is able to navigate this space. The diversity, interest and research reflected in his artwork seemingly make Larsen, as much engineer, geographer, or anthropologist as he is an artist. "The wild toolbox of Caleb Larsen’s activities reveals a spirit much like that of an explorer looking for the unknown. … By extracting information from found sources, whether art, movies, or the web, Larsen is clueing us in to other things we should be noticing and be ready for." –Ian Berry BIOGRAPHY Caleb Larsen was born in a small cabin without a toilet in the Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula. He has swam in the Arctic Ocean, played wiffle ball with Paul Auster, hitch-hiked through the Yukon, worked at Little Caesar’s Pizza, assembled bowling pins, worked as an email marketer, made over ten thousand cups of coffee, and built vintage racing mopeds. Currently Larsen is an MFA candidate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2002 he attended the Yale Norfolk summer residency program, and received his BFA in Painting in 2003 from Western Michigan University. In 2008 he received an Award of Excellence at RISD, mounted a solo show at Philadelphia’s Esther M Klein gallery, showed in the Recoded exhibition in Aberdeen Scotland, and participated in an exhibition at the Lawrimore Project in Seattle highlighting several young Seattle artists. In addition, Larsen’s recent work has been exhibited at Ars Combinatoria in Orlando, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Detroit International Video Festival, Flux Factory in New York, 911 Media Arts Center in Seattle, and Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University. The artist lives and works in Seattle and Rhode Island. DR. NO WORDS In this 65 min video I have removed all of the dialogue from the 1962 James Bond movie Dr. No. http://a11.video2.blip.tv/1170000267800/Cmlarsen-DrNoWords715.mov THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Programmatically generated print from the complete works of William Shakespeare on Somerset Velvet. 44"x160" A TOOL TO DECEIVE AND SLAUGHTER (IN PROGRESS)