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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. Her visual art practice includes photography, coding, live performance, AV, events, DJing, creative direction, production, direction, etc...
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 continue to inform her work.
em@emsieler ~ % cat artist_statement.txt
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