Artist Statement

My work investigates the status of the image in an internet-connected society. Rather than serving as consumers, members of the public are now producers capable of creating an infinity of media and cultural content. Images are created, edited, circulated and re-edited by a public with constant access to photo- and video-capturing devices and easy-to-use design software (see the 'Star Wars Kid' viral video and its countless spin-offs on YouTube, for example, with innumerable collaborators and even more viewers). The contemporary individual constructs and presents his or her identity to the public through social-networking websites, blogs and other online platforms through the hodgepodge selection of found images and cultural fragments combined with personal photographs and status-updates. Images are arranged according to a purely subjective logic of taste and attraction; the subject presents herself through this matrix of aesthetic fragments, defining not only her aesthetic sensibility but also her (aestheticized) politics and relationship to history .

How can art explore the consequences of this new type of image? How do history and politics function for this new type of subject? What is the role of the material object when media is communally produced, shared and constantly updated?