Scott Kildall
Scott Kildall (born 1969) is an American conceptual artist working with new technologies in a variety of media including video art, prints, sculpture and performance art. Kildall works broadly with virtual worlds and in the net.art movement. His work centers on repurposing technology and repackaging information from the public realm into art. He often invites others to participate in the work. Early life and education Scott Kildall is the son of computer innovator Gary Kildall. He graduated with an undergraduate degree in Political Philosophy from Brown University in 1991 and received a Master of Fine Arts through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Art and Technology Studies department in 2006. Career From 2006 to 2008, Kildall produced “Video Portraits”, a video piece where Kildall asks strangers to pose for a photograph but instead shoots video. The purpose was to record the act of constructing a pose for recorded memory. In 2006, Kildall produced Future Memories, a single-channel video work that uses in-between moments from iconic Hollywood movies. The clips are black-and-white with an ambient soundtrack, which result in a feeling of displaced familiarity as the viewer registers the clips on a subconscious level. In 2007, Kildall's