Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film - LACMA
It's Over Bitch, 2022, 6 channel silent video installation
I originally made this piece for a 2022 show with John de Leon Martin at Human Resources, curated by John Bertle. I visited HR and they had a bunch of CRT TVs for me to use. I turned one on and it made that loud metallic BWOMP sound with a flash of white light that exploded from the center. That sound was so nostalgic—it transported me back to the Web2 aesthetics of my childhood and adolescence that continue to influence my practice. Social media and Web2 were rising during the early 2000s, alongside reality TV. I graduated high school in 2007, and the imagery in these collages—pixel art, screensavers, glitches, internet cats, and nostalgic brands like Limewire—draws from that era. The technical approach to making these collage videos exemplifies a copy-and-paste technique. Combining images that already exist and carry the weight of their circulation through online image economies to make new meaning within the new worlds I create.
Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film
Over the last four decades, image-editing software has radically transformed our visual world. The ease with which images and text can be digitally generated and altered has enabled new forms of creative experimentation, while also sparking philosophical debates about the very nature of representation. Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film examines the impact of digital manipulation tools from the 1980s to the present, for the first time assessing simultaneous developments and debates in the fields of photography, graphic design, and visual effects. Featuring over 150 works, the exhibition traces the emergence of distinctive digital aesthetic strategies, relationships to realism, and storytelling modes. The nearly 200 artists, designers, and makers in Digital Witness illuminate today's visual culture where digital editing tools are easier to access than ever before.