CYBER VOID

  cyber void is a project that marries nostalgic tech with the modern abstract tool of artificial intelligence (AI). I am utilizing AI as a tool to create a haunting depiction of the realities of growing up on the internet- good and bad.

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I often look back and analyze the way that unsupervised internet exposure and technology affected my life as a young girl. I was born in 2001, and began using my family’s desktop computer casually in 2006 to play flash games, in the days of the early internet. At the age of 10 years old I was introduced to social media. I spent hours on message boards, limewire, tumblr, and various other websites making formative relationships (both platonic, parasocial, and romantic). I cannot deny that huge parts of my personality were formed during my impressionable years, consuming a variety of content on the internet.

    The early 2000s often feel like a timestamp that divides me from those who are younger than me- who were born into the age of the internet, and from our parents and elders- who were introduced to the internet well after they developed into the person they are. Navigating being a young person online created a very intimate relationship between me and the computer, often creating a secretive feeling when browsing information as I was learning who I was and how to be a person. 

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presented in BEFORE I LEAVE.

Before I Leave is a collaborative effort of 45 graduating photographers and artists in the BFA Photography and Related Media program. The exhibition from the graduating class of the Photography department is just a microcosm of a larger photographic universe, one that is constantly evolving