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Em Sieler is a lens-based artist, programmer, and DJ whose work lives between the real world and the camera. Weaving hyper-feminine performance with maximalist visual worlds, she explores how the body is staged, styled, and seen across irl and online culture. As a visual artist whose practice includes photography, coding, live performance, AV, events, DJing, creative direction, production, and direction, she is always doing way too much…
Em is an Artist-in-Residence at ZeroSpace and a junior member of Team Rolfes. She made her live AV / DJ debut as DJ ATTENTION at Diskokina LA and Artifice NY with ATTENTI0NWH0RE, a live AV/DJ show about being a girl online. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Seoul, and Berlin. She runs the internet hot girl brainrot party series HOTFIX, which debuted in February 2024 with a sold-out show in New York.
Em got her start as a photographer, and the fashion image and its role in mass culture inform her work today.
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1 I use the camera to claim ownership of my image in
2 reaction to the violence of viewing and being viewed.
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4 I want to reclaim the portrayal of self in opposition
5 to the bodies, stories, and emotions that are deemed
6 acceptable enough to occupy physical and digital
7 space.
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9 I use my body as a medium through performance and
10 self-portraiture to resist the disembodiment of
11 surveillance in the digital era.
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13 I participate in the performance of the sexualized and
14 gendered self online and irl and investigate the
15 feedback response of these digital and physical spaces.
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17 I aim to interrogate the role of photography and
18 image creation in the attention economy and the role
19 of the self as social currency across digital
20 landscapes.
© EM SIELER 2025