Jacolby Satterwhite
The hypnotic videoscapes by Artist Jacolby Satterwhite perfectly embody cyberspace. Cyberspace has always functioned as an important forum for LGBTQ minorities and Satterwhite wonderfully encapsulate this legacy. Satterwhite is a performance artist with advanced computer animation talents, they create these Hallucinogenic virtual architectural underworld populated by cyberfreaks, leather queens, and other deviants which are paraded in spectacular fashion. the work is both a stunning testimony to queer digital labor and a joyful reminder that all emergent spaces, both physical and virtual, are ripe for transgressive communities to occupy.
Ian Cheng
Ian Cheng, a New York-based artist, has spent his career pushing technological boundaries in order to investigate the potential of digital imagery and virtual reality. His “Emissary” trilogy (2015-2017), is a series of live simulation movies built on a video games engine. This gives the objects a set of behaviors and qualities. Cheng’s simulations take on a life of their own, by constructing restricted virtual environments in which the audience is reduced to nothing but an onlooker of a self-generating dramaturgy.