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BIO

Letta Shtohryn (UA/MT) works predominantly with new media, sculpture and imagery. Her academic background is in Philosophy/Sociology (Uni Wien), Photography (The Vienna Art School) and Digital Art (MFA 2016).

She is currently a Research Excellence Fellow at The Immersion Lab, University of Malta.

Selected exhibitions/ residencies

Avatars as companion species
at TheWrong.TV; Crypto H(e)aven 2.0 @ Beforetheydeletethis.com commissioned by Kat Zavada;Offshore bakery at Debatable Lands, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT;Algorithmic Oracle @Milan machinima festival, Digital art week, Milan, IT;Strangers in a strange land curated by Unfinished Art Space @Muza, (MT); An Area of some importance (part 2) @Offsiteproject google maps residency; Algorithmic Oracle @ VideoVortexXII, by Institute of Network Cultures, Spazju Kreattiv (MT); LisbonLQ1.jpeg @ Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon (PT); Object, Objecc, Objetc @SpazjuKreattiv (MT); Algorithmic Oracle at Vanity Projects, Miami, (USA); Little Hell Gate video playlist at Frieze Art Fair, New York, (USA); Dream Catcher at The Box @ Phillips, New York, (USA); An area of some importance at Digitalartistresidency.org; Textile Memory @AIRWRO, Wroclaw, (PL). The Tension of Things Unsaid @ Listastofan, Reykjavik, (IC); Christmas at my parents’ house @ Roundabout LX, Lisbon, (PT); Now no longer – Now not yet @ Spazju Kreattiv, (MT).:

Artist Statement

Letta Shtohryn investigates the entangled relationship between the physical and digital realm, explores post-human thought, human-nonhuman collaborations and speculates about the future. As a method, Letta employs speculative investigations, storytelling, sci-fi inspired amalgamations, using new media, sculpture, video games, commercial goods and imagery. She engages with layers of “reality” that are at odds with each other as well as investigates social constructs and paradoxes.

Being ceaselessly inspired by deception, Letta explores the fine line between truth and myth-making. Often her research-based practice can be found combining the historical and the contemporary looking for the interrelation between the current technology and the early (pre)industrial practices. Letta’s work also explores gender constructs and gender representation, as part of her identity is being a full-time woman.

Short version

Letta Shtohryn investigates the entangled relationship between the physical and digital realm, explores post-human thought, human-nonhuman collaborations and speculates about the future. As a method, Letta employs speculative investigations, storytelling, sci-fi inspired amalgamations, using machinima, video, net art, sculpture, internet memorabilia, commercial goods and imagery.