Virtually Me curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz at Vanity Projects NYC and Miami

<p>VIirtually Me curated by Tiffany Zabludowicz<br></p> <p>Vanity Projects: 99 Chrystie St, New York & 7338 NW Miami Court Unit 2, Miami</p><p>Nov 9 - Dec 3 2016<br></p> <p>Today we are defined not by who we are, but rather by what we post online. Is your virtual self interesting, funny, pretty, smart, sexy, or branded? How many followers and likes do you have on Tinder, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube? Each virtual decision becomes more real than your reality. Artists are in much the same situation. Each work an artist makes becomes a part of their personal definition. But what happens when artists engage with social media and begin to disrupt a digital representation of themselves as part of their practices?</p> <p>These video works have been selected from DAATA editions, a commissioning platform for artists’ video, sound, poetry, and web. The website (daata-editions.com) serves first as an online exhibition space. Videos from DAATA are reposted to social media platforms, reblogged, and disseminated throughout the internet. The artworks on the website consequently get mixed into the artists’ pre-existing online platforms and repertoire. The two become interlinked. Artists infuse their works on DAATA with familiar online tropes and create virtual versions of themselves or compile virtual versions of others, thus blurring the distinction between the real self, the artistic self, and the virtual self. (<em>Text: Tiffany Zabludowicz</em>)</p> <p>Daata Editions Artists include: Abri de Swardt, Amalia Ulman, Casey Jane Ellison, Charles Richardson, Chloe Wise, David Blandy, Ed Fornieles, Florian Meisenberg, Hannah Perry, Helen Benigson, Jon Rafman, Katie Torn, Keren Cytter, Leo Gabin, Michael Manning, Rachel Maclean, Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Norris.</p> <p>Link <a href="http://www.vanityprojectsnyc.com/">Vanity Projects</a></p>