James Cunning Holland Visual Studies Workshop Throughout James Cunning Holland’s teenage years, he divided his energies, rather discretely, between “art”: photography and drawing, and “sports”: wrestling and football. In college, while continuing to study photography and drawing, he replaced competitive sports with the study/instruction of martial arts, dance and West African drumming. Ten years later, Cunning Holland’s overriding conviction involves approaching evolving media technologies from a body-centered standpoint. What often passes these days as “interactive” arguably follows the logic of pejorative speech: the infinite associations get too-easily reduced to software sensibilities. The artist’s use of evolving media technologies, primarily through installation and performance projects, hopefully indicates ambivalence to such rote binaries as mind/body, organic/technical and internal/external. As intractable as approaching visual technologies from a body-centered standpoint may sound, the artist believes the prospect of behaving like a human data bank seems equally ridiculous.