My artwork investigates ideas of glitch, specifically how translating imagery from digital workspaces to analog processes distorts and redefines visual characteristics. Growing up through the 2000s, I experienced the rise and fall of torrenting, the integration of cloud storage, and the onset of artificial intelligence systems intending to make life more convenient. I was heavily invested in learning about all aspects of technology, finding any way to engage that I could. Reflecting on this, my work often begins as digital collages where objects and environmental characteristics are dislocated from their initial images and repurposed into unusual artifacts that no longer bear resemblance to their origin. The digital is then translated to the analog through various printmaking processes, allowing the artwork to take the form of illusionary, dream-like constructions. These constructions provide a familiarity that references representational space while questioning the authenticity of the source imagery.
Chauncey Hay is an interdisciplinary printmaker and educator currently located in Youngstown, OH. He earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Youngstown State University in 2016, later receiving an MFA in 2-D Studies (with a focus in printmaking) from Bowling Green State University in 2021. His current artwork takes an interest in the ways AI, as well as other digital programs, impact physical lifestyles and expectations. Although primarily working with printmaking, Chauncey also explores how captured and created audio interacts with a variety of forms and materials through engaging sound sculptures. His audio interests also led him to cofound the group Picnic Day, a music collaborative prioritizing improvisation and call-and-response songwriting techniques. His work has been shown nationally in solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Chauncey has taught as an adjunct professor at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan and at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH.