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Jina
22 years old
Brooklyn,
New York
United States
Last Login: 04/18/2021
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The “death” of a thing, whether that be the “death of painting”, the “death of America”, or the “death of God”,
is marked when the subject is unable to sufficiently express or represent the unadulterated truth that had been
expected and experienced from it. It marks the subject’s irrevocable transformation and signals to mourn it,
grieve it, and remember it. The historicized present is haunted by spectres that cannot be ontologized––the
ghost lingers, it haunts, and manifests in the spaces where it has been “killed”.
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The utopic expectations of what the internet was supposed to represent has been shattered beyond repair; today, we can barely imagine
a future free from the oligarchy of bigtech, its corporate narrative, and mass surveillance. The expectation
for a future that never arrived haunts us––the hauntological spectre lies between the object as they were, are,
and will be to the objects they were hoped to have been, used to be, and would have been in the future.
History and ideology haunt each other interchangeably as theory haunts practice, and utopia haunts reality.
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My Artist Statement!
Taking the internet and digital platforms as a reflexive space and medium in which the utopic (and now more than ever,
dystopic) ideologies involving our transition into a digitally mediated network society function, my practice
has been considering a collective expression of disenchantment, disillusion, and satirical doubt of the present
embedded within the hauntological layer of technology.
I look towards interdisciplinary scholarships in art to
influence my practice and thinks about my work in relation to the historicized context of its medium and the
decontextualization of it in contemporary appropriations––whether that be in the digital moving image, gifs,
or internet memes. As my work has grown from high-to-low technoculture and the aesthetics of digital compression,
I am producing work which evolves the hauntological spectre into a collective artform of digital intermedia.
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Random Factz about Me :)
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My Education
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Washington University in St. Louis B.A.
with majors in Studio Art, Film & Media Studies, Art History |
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Most Listened Today
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Lipstick by Ariel and He Needs Me by Anika |
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My Favorite Films
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Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
La Jetée (1962)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Possesion (1981)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Blue Valentine (2010)
Leon the Professional (1994)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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