Peter Tristram Walz


Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Degree

Peter T. Walz is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator whose work investigates how visual culture, media systems, and contemporary aesthetics shape consciousness and cultural meaning. Grounded in critical theory his practice explores the agency of images, the poetics of objects, and the unstable boundary between viewer and world. Through photography, sculpture, installation, and text, Walz engages a materialist and speculative praxis that questions how perception, mediation, and artistic labor function within recursive digital and cultural environments. His work reflects on attention, embodiment, and the ethical dimensions of techno-humanism. He is the author of Community: Work (2021) and Directions (2024), and he teaches and writes on media literacy, aesthetic philosophy, and resistance within mediated systems.