Andy King
Andy King is a digital media artist whose often satirical and political works focus on internet subcultures and themes of loneliness and human relationships in a digital age. She explores life as part of the first generation which experienced popular culture through the internet — the blurring of distinctions between truth and fiction, copy and original, private and public spaces. Based in Berlin, King works with found images and videos, photographing and manipulating them repeatedly in a way that mimics how information is disseminated and distorted online.
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose (Short-term Project) — Summer 2016
Hero with a Thousand Faces
Aura — Winter 2016
IAE_Haikus
Aura — Winter 2016
My Very Own Personal Louvre
Aura — Winter 2016
There Are No Girls On The Internet
Mirror: Material, Metaphor, Medium — Summer 2018
Wish I Weren't Here
Carte Blanche — Winter 2018
Yves Klein Jigsaw Puzzle
Aura — Winter 2016
Hero with a Thousand Faces is a series of digital decollages centering around character archetypes that have existed within ancient narratives but have also survived the passage of time and have been carried over to contemporary media. The work borrows both its title and content from Joseph Campbell’s book on comparative mythology, in which he writes about how there are thousands of stories but a limited number of plots and character archetypes. Individual heroes and heroines can be reduced to stock character groups such as, ‘mentor’, ‘herald’ and ‘trickster’. For this project archetypes such as the Mother-Whore and good-natured Messiah have been complemented with images obtained from tvtropes.org — a wikipedia for character archetypes and plot clichés which places recurrent motifs and personality traits from ancient runes to anime and video games on a timeline.
divine mama is too good too pure
6packmessiah
(All Eyes On) Midsummer's Eve
sweet child of mine
heart of gold
