http://o-p-h-e-l-i-a-you.live/
2023
o-p-h-e-l-i-a-you.live is a net.art piece exploring the experience of teenage girlhood on the Internet through the embodiment of the Shakespearean character Ophelia. Narratively, it follows the story of Ophelia’s descent into madness through Hamlet’s five acts as the user travels the piece from left to right. o-p-h-e-l-i-a-you.live traverses subcultural memes of the Lana Del Rey / ‘coquette core’ / 2010s Tumblr ‘sad girl’ genre and their existence as manifestations of internal tensions—of existing between good and bad, desire and hate, and an underlying sense of moral fatalism—as a girl online. It is ultimately an experiment in poetic worldbuilding—the act of stitching, cutting, and pasting together syntax with web debris collected from Web 2.0 including Geocities GIFs, Blingees, and other early-Internet artifacts existing as a tender process that the artist feels is as tactile and alive as knitting. o-p-h-e-l-i-a-you.live was initially inspired by the painting Ophelia (1851-52, Sir John Everett Millais) that generated questions of what it means to conflate “high art” and to reference the literary canon as an extension of Internet art’s historical connectivity.
Yoona
United States
Yoona (b. 2002) is a multimedia artist and computer science student. Her academic and artistic practice exists in the liminal space between cyberspace and the offline world—a framework through which to remediate and recontexualize her lived experiences and the ever-shifting contexts of her identity. Using code as a medium for digital storytelling and liberatory worldbuilding, Yoona is currently experimenting with alternative modes of performance to explore facets of postmodern Internet culture.