Waves approach cinema like a half-remembered dream, where familiar images return fragmented, unstable, and reshaped by a shift in meaning and associations. They can also be funny.
David Jackson is a media artist working with analog, digital and generative methods to radically re-imagine existing media. Using remix, circuit-bending, analog synthesis, and live image manipulation, he re-contextualizes familiar moving images into unstable new forms that move between pop culture, abstraction, and altered cinematic history. His work explores play, perception, consciousness, and the human urge for escape, treating cinema as material to be fractured, manipulated, and rebuilt. He has been exhibiting solo and in collectives internationally since 2016.
A core member of Racer Trash and co-founder of Dream Video Division, Jackson has developed a practice of feature-length re-edits, installation, and moving-image work. Across collaborative and solo projects, he helped pioneer the radical editing language known as waving, merging underground audience culture, humor, sensory overload, and experimental media into immersive experiences for theaters, festivals, streaming, and gallery spaces.
His work has screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Locarno, Fantastic Fest, Philadelphia Film Festival, Cucalorus, and other venues. He assembles collaborative projects regularly with artists and filmmakers working across contemporary art, underground media, and the film industry. Jackson studied Experimental Film at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he began developing the handmade, analog-driven approaches that continue to shape his practice.