Casey Kauffmann

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

My work addresses the contemporary performance of self as it relates to femme representation, social media, and reality television. I am an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, installation, video, and a variety of digital mediums. My drawings function as an inquiry into the representation of femme emotion and hysteria in both art history and popular culture. My process throughout my practice across all mediums utilized is based in the logic of appropriapriation and collage, decontextualizing and recontextualizing materials to produce new meaning. I started my Instagram @uncannysfvalley in 2014, which includes GIFs and collages created using only my iPhone and found images. These digital works are rooted in collage and the classical net-art process of the online search, aggregation, and manipulation of “poor images,” a term coined by artist and writer Hito Steyerl. To summarize Steyerl, poor images are popular images. Images that have imprinted upon them a material degradation in quality (classically defined by resolution) resulting from their infinite exchange through online image economies. Within this imprint is embedded invisible anonymous global networks built upon shared histories, interests, desires, and anxieties. For years I have sourced my images from Tumblr, Instagram, and Google, accumulating a collection of material from all corners of the internet. These works serve as an intervention into the online representation of women. I employ sparkly, pink,...

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