Hyperdentity is a new site-specific body of work by Georgie Roxby Smith, an Australian visual artist working across a range of disciplines exploring new pathways between virtual and physical worlds.
Hyperdentity presents a disturbing and dizzying atmosphere that bombards andsurrounds the audience with computer generated self-portraits of the artist through a mixture of digital media and sound. These virtual subjects face the audience and themselves, repeating familiar phrases from online culture such as “Poke me”, like commands or cries for attention and validification.
Like the colliding, mutating and disembodied network of information produced from our various interactions of self-representation and presence online, Georgie’s portraits are fractured, hyperreal and expanding out of control. These digital identities multiply and seem to take on a life of their own, as incompletely both self and other. Quite reflective of our context, yet abstract and exaggerated in it address, “Hyperdentity” creates a dark and tense space. In general, experiencing “Hyperdentity” challenges and reminds us of our constructions, understandings and expectations of the self and others within the digital era. –
by Tara Cook
More information: georgieroxbysmith.ning.com
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