Tivon Rice explores how traditional ways of learning and communicating are influenced by mass media and reliance on digital technology.  Video, digital arts, and experimental media have become some of the most accessible artist’s tools as of late, but much like the socially isolating nature of television and the internet, digital art is often inaccessible and impersonal to the viewer.  While he is often distrustful of digital video, an implement of mass media, he embraces its communicative potential.  By pairing video with objects and forms that have strong cultural value Rice hopes to confront the increasingly objective nature of television, and embrace the viewer’s abilities of visual perception, temporal awareness, and critical analysis.  Like a new-media-Minimalist, many of his recent video sculptures explore the transformation of televised information to pure form and light.  In these environments, the viewer’s consciousness of a physical experience confronts the normally passive function of watching television.  By engaging one’s awareness of color, time and space he creates opportunities for active viewing.