Ryan Barone

Self-Portrait That Will Decrease in Opacity by Ten Percent for Each Time it's Reblogged Until Vanished (After Nabokov), 2010





Bio: Ryan Barone is an elusive internet artist who maintains an ambiguous persona and shares very few details.  He has a BFA, and has had further educational pursuits.

Lizzie Hughes

Four Thousand and Seven Horizons (2007)
Images taken from various photo-sharing websites

Bio: Lizzie Hughes was born and raised in Anglesey, Wales, and received her MFA from The Slade School of Fine Art in London.  Hughes has participated in residencies and both group and solo exhibitions.

Chris Beckman

Chris Beckman, "Oops", 2009

Appropriated Digital Video

Bio: Chris Beckman is a New York City-based artist, whose film, “Oops”was the winner of the 2010 Vimeo Awards for the Experimental Category.  Beckman has had group and solo exhibitions in New York and Boston.

Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic

Star Wars Kid, 2009

Without You Baby, There Ain't No Us, 2008
Installation view

Without You Baby, There Ain't No Us (Detail), 2008




Bios: Comenius Roethlisberger was born in Switzerland in 1971, and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Admir Jahic was born in Switzerland in 1976, and has had group and solo exhibitions since 2005.

Penelope Umbrico

Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr, 2006-ongoing

15 Copyrighted Suns From the Internet (screen-grabs) , 2009

Bio: Penelope Umbrico studied at OCAD, and received her MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City.  She has had multiple group and solo exhibitions, and currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts, and is the Chair of MFA Photography at Bard College.

03.21.11

"Postmodern appropriation and referentiality seems to have bumped it [originality] down the priorities list, and I'd argue that where it isn't looked for, originality won't flourish."