Hunter Whitaker-Morrow is an artist working in modes of audio-visual performance, video installation, and experimental documentary. His practice, both structuralist and conceptual, centers on an exploration of digital materiality, the moving [and sounding] image as socio-historical text, and the activation of experimental audio-visual constructions as instruments of cultural supersession.

Informed by an academic background in sociology and film theory alongside extensive experience in the television industry, Whitaker-Morrow investigates the physical, technological, aesthetic, social, and political dimensions of audio-visual encounters.

His Movement Lab Fellowship project, Signal to Signification, traced the chain of meaning-production in the digital A/V medium beginning at the level of the pixel and the frame before expanding toward questions of cinematic linguistics and signification more broadly. Through the development of structuralist editing principles, physical installations, and custom Max/MSP/Jitter software, Whitaker-Morrow engineered encounters with the most fundamental levels of A/V form, confronting viewers with the underlying structures of a medium that increasingly defines the present.

Whitaker-Morrow holds an MFA with a concentration in Film, Video, and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a dual BA in Film and Media Studies and Sociology from Amherst College. Following his Movement Lab Fellowship, he will return to RISD as part-time faculty in the Film & Video and Sound departments.