James Pardue is a media artist concerned with the formal relationships between audio and video. His audiovisual performances merge outdated and contemporary media technologies to explore aesthetics of feedback, temporality, and opacity. The primary inspiration for his creation stems from the interiors of e-waste, buggy AV equipment, and obscure videos, recordings, or texts, which serve as artistic material. He uses software, electronics, and audiovisual synthesis to hack these artifacts from the past and repurpose them as interactive instruments. Pardue’s approach is grounded in a media-archaeological perspective that examines the materiality of past media through a multimodal, speculative, and digital lens. He is currently an MFA student in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo.