JACKSON DAUGHETY




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I am interested in providing a subversive counter-discourse to the aesthetics and politics which have risen out of the dot com bubble and subsequent venture capitalist maneuverings of the late 2000s and 2010s. By cynically reproducing images used by government-affiliated game developers, the “FAANG” tech companies, and other instances of digital propaganda, I want to allow for a more comprehensive analysis of digital media imagery. Through the printing process, artifacts and idiosyncrasies become a part of the composition, providing an ironic humanity to the subject matter. This acts not only to disrupt the monolithic authority of the tech world, but to emphasize its cultural illiteracy.