Ryan Clow

By appropriating and re-contextualizing images from web sources such as Craigslist, OKCupid, and Instagram, Clow invites a critical gaze at how personal information is reflected in an age defined by our socially imposed reliance on the Internet. Clow’s presentations of these images examine issues of privacy, the (un)intentional surrender thereof in self-publication and categorization via individual mediation.

Jason van Staveren

van Staveren uses video to re-imagine failed bureaucratic systems. Costly, seldom used public facilities and direct mail catalogs are targeted as wasteful, ineffective devices for connection. These systems are questioned via their transformation into things more playful if not necessarily more useful.