{"id":602,"date":"2023-06-18T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronom.it\/?post_type=digital-video-wall&#038;p=602"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:09:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:09:42","slug":"realselfcindy-katie-torn","status":"publish","type":"digital-video-wall","link":"https:\/\/www.metronom.it\/en\/digital-video-wall\/realselfcindy-katie-torn\/","title":{"rendered":"@REALSELFCINDY | KATIE TORN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>@RealSelfCindy<\/em>\u00a0is the video presented within the program RABBIT HOLE,edition of DIGITAL VIDEO WALL, an annual project structured in thematic chapters, aimed at promoting the dissemination and experimentation of digital art.<\/p>\n<p>Will be featured the work of Katie Torn,<em>@RealSelfCindy\u00a0<\/em>(2016, VIDEO, MP4). Torn\u2019s practice can be described as an assemblage of elements available online and digital waste material that, in her works, are transformed into virtually simulated scenes from the debris of the internet and consumer culture. The artist uses computer graphics and 3D videos to shape visual patchworks that encapsulate glimpses of Internet culture. Her visual collages recall surrealist oneiric imagery, in which organic and synthetic matter, human, plants and animal bodies combine to create new realities and new individual subjects. In her works we find mini horses from My Little Pony, Barbies and varied dolls, illustrations reminiscent of Fornasetti\u2019s faces, all mixed and mingled with digital assets and animations that make Katie Torn\u2019s works a milieu of media and subjects. As the artist herself states about her practice, \u00abMy work offers a vision of a new kind of \u2018natural\u2019 substance that originates in the virtual and blends organic and synthetic materials\u00bb. Her imaginary landscapes open the doors to a new kind of individuality, which unfolds in the depths of the many digital platforms we inhabit. Her artistic investigation reflects on the concept of digital identity, and her personal portraits apply Instagram-like filters to her face and body, generating a thousand ever-changing faces, with eyes, mouths noses, breasts, hair, originating from an identity jigsaw puzzle.<br \/>\nKatie Torn also reflects on contemporary capitalist culture by including in her installations \u201cleftovers of the capitalist world,\u201d garbage, plumbing pipes, fragments of advertisements, and technological waste in a visual chaos that investigates the environmental drift we have arrived at but also the human impulse to accumulate, inside and outside our digital worlds.<\/p>\n<p><em>@RealSelfCindy\u00a0<\/em>is a series of 6 videos commissioned by DAATA Editions in 2016 in which the artist examines her body and persona through a series of filters that deform her face and body by adding plant details such as flowers, plants, wings, exotic fruits, in an almost carnivalesque portrait that is very reminiscent of the decompositions of cubist subjects. Katie Torn experiments with her different personalities in front of the camera, just like when we play with Instagram filters to change our features. In this enchanting universe where reality and virtuality meet, the human subject and their avatar immerse themselves in a visual space-time continuum to trace the boundaries of a personality spread across different but at the same time complementary digital platforms. The facial filters Katie Torn applies to herself underscore the potential of the self to multiply without limits to \u201cplay with one\u2019s identity and try on new ones,\u201d as Sherry Turkle puts it.<\/p>\n<p>@<em>Realselfcindy<\/em>| Katie Torn<br \/>\nMETRONOM | Via Carteria 10 | 41121 Modena<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Katie Torn, <i>@RealSelfCindy<\/i>, 2016, video still, courtesy the artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":715,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"digital-video-wall-category":[55],"class_list":["post-602","digital-video-wall","type-digital-video-wall","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","digital-video-wall-category-rabbit-hole-2023"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>@REALSELFCINDY | KATIE TORN - Metronom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metronom.it\/en\/digital-video-wall\/realselfcindy-katie-torn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"@REALSELFCINDY | KATIE TORN - 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