ALLEN REDWING
MFA ’26 Fine Arts Low-Residency
I examine how institutions teach us what to see, believe, remember, and ignore. Working across installation, film, archival reconstruction, projected image, writing, sound, and AI-mediated systems, I treat narrative as a form of infrastructure: something built through language, bureaucracy, visual culture, policy, and repetition.
The work presented here considers the residue of hidden authority—military memory, racialized representation, official documents, public symbols, and the unstable boundary between GenAI and our stories. I am interested in the ways systems organize visibility: who is rendered legible, whose pain becomes data, and whose stories are framed as credible or disposable.
AI enters my practice not as an autonomous author, but as a dialogical material. Its errors, repetitions, seductions, and gaps reveal the cultural assumptions embedded in contemporary image-making. By combining machine-generated imagery with physical objects, cinematic sequencing, and procedural language, I construct spaces where viewers can feel the pressure of interpretation itself. My work asks how power narrates reality—and what becomes possible when we interrupt its script.
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Allen Redwing is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, filmmaker, and literary technologist. A Memphis native and disabled U.S. military veteran, he earned a degree in Business Administration from Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. His practice spans photography, film, installation, and computational narrative systems, informed by visual storytelling, cultural analysis, and emerging media.
