P. Seth Thompson is a visual artist working in digital media, photography, and video, exploring the intersection of nostalgia, technology, and perception. His work draws from VHS aesthetics, sci-fi cinema, lo-fi digital artifacts, and the visual language of analog distortion, using these elements to create fragmented realities that feel both familiar and alien. Through glitches, pixelation, and layers of interference, Thompson manipulates images in a way that mimics memory degradation—where the past, present, and imagined collide.

His fascination with VHS tapes isn’t just aesthetic—it’s personal. Growing up, video stores and late-night movie marathons shaped his sense of identity. Pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding through films became a way to dissect reality, and that obsessive engagement with moving images still drives his practice. His work often plays with sci-fi tropes, surveillance culture, and cinematic mythology, recontextualizing pop culture through a lens of digital decay.

Through a mix of digital collage, glitch manipulation, and photography, Thompson’s work breaks down images the way memory does—through distortion, noise, and interference. By drawing from 80s and 90s sci-fi, horror, and experimental cinema, he examines the way media warps perception, constructing alternative realities within the cracks of the familiar. His work often feels like a corrupted transmission from another timeline—where faces dissolve into static, colors bleed unnaturally, and reality flickers like an unstable signal.