The Site of Future Mergers

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Kari Altmann is an American artist and cultural technologist working at the complex intersection of formats and motives that occur in the back end of production today. Memes, brands, trends, microcultures, algorithms, social media, prosumer software, and other communal imaging systems are all put to use in a restructured ecosystem of content which flows through multiple platforms, almost faster than art product or identity can keep up with. These open fields of memetic culture are continually crafted to release the survivalist and fantasy-based tactics inherent in their environment, as the artwork that results from them morphs to fit different material and social contexts over time.

Recent exhibitions include Soft Mobility Abstracts, New Museum, New York, Brands, Salts Center, Basel, and Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center, Beijing. She has done projects for and with Art Dubai, The Goethe-Institut, Rhizome, The Hirshhorn Museum, Dis Magazine, Nero Magazine, and many more.