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…
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 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…
Dho Yee Chung’s Point Zero (2019) raised the question of what is real and what is not and a discussion about the apparatus people use to hide their identities to guard against social norms. In this interview, Chung talked about the development of her idea of the relationship between computers…
100 Year Plan is an interactive live-cinema experience of a near-future online variety show by Scotty Wagner and Bailey Hikawa of the duo Emotional.Store. The piece poses an examination of the human mind in the midst of automation takeover, combining livestream performance, pre-recorded videos, songs, websites and wearables into a…
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…
Kia Miakka Natisse is a passionate storyteller. She has a Master of Arts from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies — where she concentrated in transmedia storytelling — and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Howard University. Natisse works to create pieces that “go beyond genres to create rich…
Jody Zellen’s The Human Touch is a series of Los Angeles street art animations that playfully opens a new dimension to public art. Zellen’s digital animations can be seen as collaborations with unaware street artists that create permanence with often ephemeral street art. Through movement, Zellen pays homage to the…
Onions places the viewer in the moment when a writer struggles to construct an honest narrative about her struggle with “hiding or ignoring” her “blackness”. While simultaneously replicating the frustrations of being American and being black, when the world tries to erase the latter through the forced assimilation of the…