Eddie D.

Eddie D lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Born in 1963, he became a punk-rocker at the end of the 1970s which laid the basis of the d.i.y. attitude in his work. He studied media-art at the AKI art-school in Enschede, the Netherlands after which he made his debut with the highly acclaimed "Eddie D Presents", a breakthrough in rhythmical video (also called Videomusic). Eddie D's work consists of photos, videotapes and video/computer installations and he is the director as well as editor of all his films. Themes are deconstruction of language, rhythm and the relation between image and sound. His videotapes are musical compositions in which he uses his almost perfect editing technique to build rhythmical structures with repetition as a striking element. Music is a basic influence; as a formal starting point as well as a source of structures and patterns. His work is internationally considered the standard in this genre of video art. He uses found footage combined with self-shot video and animated photos. He mixes layers of cut-out images in a collage-like technique that combines video and animation.