Episode 39: kristin mciver TUESDAY, april 25th, 2023
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Kristin McIver is an Australian artist based in New York. Her conceptual practice includes sculpture, painting, sound, video and installation. Utilizing devices such as language, light, data and algorithms, her works explore themes of identity as commodity within digital consumer culture.
The artist examines personal identity and its relationship to social media, and how the participants of digital culture become both the subject and object of the media cycle. McIver’s works propose that ideologies served to consumers through social media networks empowered by advancing technologies are engineered behind the screen by political and market agendas. In turn, these algorithmic ‘truths’ become referents for new models of self-representation, reshaping global social politics.
McIver completed a master of fine arts (visual arts) in 2014, at University of Melbourne (Victorian College of the Arts), with a thesis You and Me: Models of Self-Representation in Participatory Culture. Significant acquisitions include National Gallery of Victoria, Latrobe University Museum of Art, the Friebe Collection. Her work was awarded the winner of the Melbourne Sculpture Prize in 2012. Other exhibitions and achievements include Melbourne Now (National Gallery of Victoria 2013), Status Quo (James Makin Gallery 2013), Data Portraits (Royale Projects: Contemporary Art 2013), Private (Liverpool Street Gallery 2016), ME/ME (Chasm Gallery 2014), Vancouver Biennale Residency Program (2015), Art OMI Residency (2013). kristinmciver.com
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