For our group publication, my personal interests are mainly and currently revolving around a renewed interest in photography and it's place in digital culture, and ideas of identity construction in online spheres via trending and branding, as well as how this construction of identity relates to the practice of art making. An overarching interest that all members involved in the publication have is the idea of sincerity on the internet. Techinically im excited to develop a print publication and learning uses of type, line and shape, aswell as developing a dynamic web template that allows user to draw conclusions between seperate editorial elements.
Some artists I'm interested in enquiring about collaborations/commissions are:
Kate Steciw
Kate Seciw is a photo-installation artist. I'm interested in her ideas about photography and pushing the image beyond a 2D plane, and her meshing of virtual and actual image objects and elements.
Jennifer Chan
I'm interested in Jennifer Chan as a critical thinker and artist, how her curatorial and her studio practice work together to interrogate ideas about sincerity and irony in the online sphere.
Im inspired by the design aesthetic of artists/designers like
Hanna Therese Nilsson,
Andreas Banderas and
Rasmus Svensson.
It's helpful to have these links reflecting your taste and interests, esp. this question of contemporary art and how removed it is from one's emotions as Jennifer Chan puts it. How it feels to know that someone doesn't love you, to use her example. It really is a totally different set of questions when you try for sincerity as opposed to a more ironic kind of performativity. I think it's important this semester for you to really latch onto the questions and artists of interest for your publication, to confirm and engage with their participation.
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