Dina Kelberman discussed her work with appropriated networked images and her tendency to meticulously collect and organize pictures from the media of everyday life. Her presentation was followed by a desktop performance titled This Fan May Not Be Replaced You Just Don't Know The Future, showcasing "a landscape of fascinating tedium” composed of found YouTube videos.
Screen Walk with Dina Kelberman
Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
Biography
Dina Kelberman is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Much of her work comes out of a tendency to meticulously collect and organize imagery from the commonplace surroundings of everyday life. Kelberman has created original web-based pieces for the New Museum and The Marina Abramovic Institute and participated in numerous international biennials. Her work has been written about by The New York Times, Art21, NPR, and various art theory books and textbooks. In 2018 she was invited to speak at the UbuWeb conference in Athens and the Post-Photography Prototyping Biennial in London. She is currently ranked 5th in the world for Most Lines in Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System.