Jeff Crouse

Website Link
You3b
For the most part, Jeff Crouse is a video artist who works to show the absurdity of technology on our lives. He believes it to be a bad influence in how it is always striving to be bigger and better. However, even though he believes in this, he uses this technology to make his point. Whether or not you believe this to be a good tactic or to be somewhat hypocritical is up to you.

Jeff Crouse was raised normally as a child. When he discovered computers and the internet, he really began to excel in it. In 1999 he graduated with an art major from a small high school in Wilmington, DE. He was well known by his teachers to be familiar with Photoshop and other HTML sources. Soon after graduation he accepted an internship working with graphic design and web development. Only after several other internships and programs did he finally move down to Georgia to study in the Digital Media design program at Georgia Tech. Finally he became to see himself more as an artist and started to really pile up his resume only to become part of the eyebeam team.

After becoming a part of the eyebeam family, he developed a program called you3b where users can combine youtube videos to make origional works adding to the technology argument. I find it a very odd expression but I like the uniqueness in what it shows. In combining the web and video it is taking two mediums of technology and combining them to make almost pointless videos showing the pointlessness of technology. I like what he has done with video and I admire his thought process but I do not completely understand everything that he stands for. He is taking the one thing in his life that he has worked so hard at and is turning it against himself and everyone else.

Another one of his projects is called Project Blackbird. You can see a small example of it shown in the image above. Basically, the point is to show the correlation between humor and the media. He originally thought of this plan when he saw a class about media and how it creates humor. The course description can be viewed on his website.

I enjoy looking at Jeff Crouse's work. He has a very exploratory mind. Also, I like that he gives the viewer exactly where he found this inspiration. It gives the viewer a better sense of his work.

To further look into what makes Jeff Crouse up as an artist, view the video on the main page of his web address. It explains his goal as an artist.