T H E  H U M A N.  

Annie Kielman is a Chicago based artist and educator whose work touches on how the human body calibrates across the messy and inseparable combination of the physical world with innumerable digital spaces. Annie received her MFA in Printmedia from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. She currently teaches at Harold Washington College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is co-founder of a Print shop and shared artist space in Lawndale. Annie has exhibited and lectured widely in Chicago and throughout the US.

T H E   W O R K .

I am interested in how the rules of our physical world determine our bodies' gestures. While these motions were influential in the early design of digital interfaces, our somatic experience with technology grows increasingly irrelevant. My work explores in-between spaces within an evolving technological landscape and investigates the relationship between material slippages and different modes of understanding our bodies. In this new digital backdrop, how does the over-processed image become an infinitely layered reproduction? And how are our digital selves diffracted through the permanent physical structure of the body?