In the digital collage series, Click, Drag, Nip, Tuck (2019), Luke Malcynsky sheds light on the powerful influence of social media, digital photo-editing tools and cosmetic surgery on societal beauty standards and the female body. In a style reminiscent of early 20th century Dada, the four-part, black-and-white series combines bold designs…
When you think about painting do you think about something like this? uses popular American cartoon clips to expose an often cited exclusivity of contemporary art. By working with a historically accessible mode of pop culture, Ana Jovanovska pokes fun at this exclusivity by revealing the tongue-in-cheek way “low” culture—both…
In Marina Tinone’s lyrical essay HMU (2020), they produce an intimate portrait of the narrator’s relationship with a phone. Using allegory and repetition, Tinone portrays a post-internet world in which a user’s experience of the digital world is indistinguishable from their physical space. ::: I need an answer. I need…
The Station is an interactive digital exploration of a post-apocalyptic space station. Based on of the Myth of Sisyphus, and tied to nostalgia as a weapon of ideology, two A.I. Sabrina and Alex, accompany the viewer through the station. Each of the 43 rooms visually and audibly reference various ages…
In Spukhafte Fernwirkung (2019), Kailum Graves compacts the endless, challenging landscape of Iceland into a 36-minute time lapse video comprised of images (640×480) taken over a three year period. Beginning the process in Skagaströnd, before moving to more remote locations, Graves compiles and arranges thousands of images in order to…
Escaping Apple Fish (2020) is a short video piece that comments on the informative fragmentation in the current cyber ecosystem. Yangyang Chen uses Apple’s live fish wallpaper footage to direct attention toward the manipulation of the image, visualized through Apple fish constantly turning back to conceal itself from being exposed….
In Screen, Josh Gumiela uses an interactive video to reflect on the challenges immigrants have to face in pursuit of naturalization in the U.S. It contains 100 naturalization practice test questions provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on YouTube. The videos are loaded pseudo-randomly and streamed from YouTube in…
In Point Zero (2019), Artist Dho Yee Chung generates digital prototypes of human figures. She isolates the viewer from human skin by creating layers of screen, disassociating the human body from its digitized form. These layers suggest society uses masks to guard against digital norms. Like skin, screens are surfaces…
In the first thirty seconds of Andrea Mikysková’s True Match (2017), the viewer is rapidly confronted with imagery of our highly developed, global world. Abrupt alarms and whistling horns signal the beginning of a work day and positions social media—the stated subject of the piece—firmly within the realm of business….
Believe it or not, Amazon actually has a patent for a flying warehouse. It’s called Airborne Fulfillment Center, and its patent details a warehouse that could stand at a high altitude, deploying drones (called “unmanned aerial vehicles”, or UAVs, in the document) to deliver goods to the customers. Futuristic…