IN THE CELL SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS

Statement from the artist’s website:

McKee Frazior treats the internet as physical material—not metaphorically, but structurally. He is interested in the infrastructure beneath the surface: latency, entropy, network protocols, and the ephemera that accumulates through use and neglect. He considers himself a hypermedia artist, which is a real thing he did not make up. His works are rarely static. They adapt to prior interactions and states, making the audience an integral part of the process whether they consented to that or not. His current obsessions include QR codes and the internet as a substrate that decays, forgets, and occasionally apologizes without meaning it. Themes of awkwardness, play, mild anxiety, and systems failing gracefully permeate his output.

Frazior was born in 1979 at Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has yet to reach his life expectancy. While working toward that goal, he attended the University of Texas at Austin (BFA 2002) and SMU Guildhall (Graduate Certificate in Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development, 2005), receiving papers from both. He has exhibited himself and others across Texas, never receiving a citation for doing so. He holds an MFA in New Media from Texas Christian University (2025). He exists geographically, mainly in the DFW area, playing with internet infrastructure, QR codes, drawing, software, sound, video, text, interactivity, and the space between wards.

Response from OJAC:

We are not sure just yet what he plans to do in the Cell Series, but not too worried about it.

Supported by The Charles E. Jacobs Foundation, McGinnis Family Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas, and Dr. Larry Wolz.