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emsieler@Emilys-MacBook-Pro-64 ~ % cat bio.txt
1 Em Sieler (b.1999, they/she) is a new media and lens-based visual
2 artist living and working in New York, NY. They graduated from Columbia
3 University with degrees in Visual Arts & Computer Science, specializing in
4 New Media Art, Computer Graphics & Vision, and Machine Learning.
5 Em currently works as an artist, programmer, and photographer.
6 Their work has been exhibited internationally in Seoul, Berlin, and New York.
emsieler@Emilys-MacBook-Pro-64 ~ % cat artiststatement.txt
1 I use the camera to claim ownership of my image in
2 reaction to the violence of viewing and being viewed.
3
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.
8
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.
12
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.
16
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 2024