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I am an artist working with video, sculpture, and photoreal renderings. My work engages with “virtual realism” and the politics of visualization to investigate how speculative activity affects our perception of reality. Encompassing surveillance algorithms that gather predictive data, hindsight evidence deployed in courts of law, and the blurred overlap of photographic and photoreal imagery, my research historicizes systems of control. The problem with imagery today is no longer distinguishing real from fake, but discerning actual events from simulated models. Accordingly, my artworks draw on computer vision, animal camouflage, and documentary practices to revitalize the inhabitation of a surveilled world.
Recent exhibitions include Chain–linkMilan Machinima Festival, Suspended AnimationNatalia Hug Galerie, Everything is commonArtists Space, and The Lind PrizeThe Polygon Gallery. From 2018 to 2021 I co-edited the periodical QOQQOONQOQQOON. From 2021 to 2022 I participated in the Whitney Independent Study ProgramWhitney Independent Study Program. Contact via stcottingham@gmail.comemail, @image.objinsta, image objectyoutube.