Andy Graydon was born and raised in Maui, Hawaii and originally trained as a filmmaker. Both experiences have been influential on his current work, which is focused on the interaction of media and environment in the forming of personal and social subjectivities. Taking the form of projected light and video installations, photographs, sound works, and architectural interventions that are attuned to site and context, Graydonʼs work explores the interplay of phenomenal, ecological, and social constructions that make up our composite notion of place. Much of this work uses cinema and pseudo-cinematic forms (including sound) to address concerns familiar to environmental art, while extending concepts of the environment to encompass the role of mediation in constructing and modulating natural and built environments, as well as "the environment", or the ground of our existence. Graydon describes many of his projects as “science fiction ecologies,” suggesting that what is most important are the speculative potentials that circulate through an environment – the what-ifs and the parallel dimensions; real and potential traumas and erasures; reversals of scale and time course; conflations of fictional and factual existence. Graydonʼs work tries to engage the future dynamic latent within the present material existence, inviting transformations of both the environment and the perceiving subject.

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Disruptive Stillness, an international juried exhibition, ran from January 8 - January 28, 2011 at the Jean Paul Slusser Gallery at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design.

Curated by John Kannenberg and Meghan Reynard.