Ana Jovanovska is a Macedonian artist who explores social structures and the influences of pop culture. In her piece When you think about painting do you think about something like this? (2018), Jovanovska unpacks the associations that often accompany “high” and “low” forms of art. ::: DigA: Cartoons are designed to…
Spukhafte Fernwirkung (2018) compacts the endless, challenging landscape of Iceland into a 36-minute time lapse of images (640×480) collected from www.road.is, a website for monitoring road conditions in Iceland, over a three year period. Beginning the process in Skagaströnd before moving to more remote locations, Kailum Graves compiles and arranges…
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 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…
Through its digital manipulation of Spike Lee’s cut scene from the videogame NBA 2k16, Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz’s MBA 2k16 (2017) is a satirical film that explores both literal and hidden conversations of race and class. Upon first glance, the video merely depicts an interaction between ‘Freq’, a basketball player, and the owner…
True Match (2017) is a short video piece that questions and comments on how social media functions within capitalism. Andrea Mikysková uses stock footage of the biggest cosmetics and fashion warehouses to juxtapose material products with the intangible products “sold” on social media. The piece ends in a shocking culmination,…
In this interview, Colin Rosati gives us insight into the inspiration and creative process behind Pollinating Proxies (2019), and themes and conversations throughout his portfolio. ::: DigA: When first viewing Pollinating Proxies, I immediately connected the piece to the work of Henry David Thoreau. Your use of hummingbirds as a…
The multimedia work of New York artist Bunny Rogers (b. 1990) is “not without its antecedents,” to borrow the words of the architect and former Brooklyn Museum director Philip N. Youtz. Rogers was just 26 years old when the Whitney Museum of Art unveiled her solo show, “Brig Und Ladder,”…
Molly O’Donnell’s Spit explores the relationship between the grotesque and the natural as it navigates the complicated relationship we have with the internet and pressing issues of sexuality, gender, and identity. O’Donnell features an ambiguous figure (potentially human, potentially cyborg) that spits on a cellphone screen and into another’s mouth. As…