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DigiPop
humorous works that tackle global pop-cultural dimensions of the age of the internet using a globally
recognizable vocabulary.
“The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split
second-comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke
... more >> Digi Pop combines current web-based interfaces, imagery, tools, and digital iconographies to create oft
humorous works that tackle global pop-cultural dimensions of the age of the internet using a globally
recognizable vocabulary.
“The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split
second-comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke
bottles-all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at
all.” (I980) Andy Warhol
“DigiPop artists make images that anyone with a smartphone can instantly recognize-emojis,
icons, desktops/apps, web-celebrities, filters, computers, Mate bottles-all the great current
things that Contemporary market artists try so hard not to notice at all.” (2018) Patrick Meagher
A 21st Century time-stamp in the atemporal and atavistic post-modern world:
Digi Pop contrasts 21st century computing iconography with the enduring permanence of everyday life via
digital icons and tools that signal generic social and work norms. These pieces reference relationships
between online surfing habits and personal agency; data immortality and relevance. Digi Pop transposes
virtual interaction onto objecthood to materialize the digital, and in doing so slows down our pavlovian
registry of contemporary symbols to both present and question our daily dose of work and endorphin
driven digital interactivity, and the legacy and impact of this technological shift. The industrialized sociality
of web buttons, icons, and emojis is akin to the late 20th century industrial iconography of canned soup,
newspaper clippings, and subject matter related to the end of that era. Digi Pop builds upon and
celebrates the 21st century’s first new iconography to be shared by billions of people worldwide. Digi Pop
begins a new chapter that signals a world beyond internationalism, a global scape of a polyphony of
voices and perspectives, and the overarching tools by which we have often met or stayed in touch and
deepened or expanded our purviews. Digi Pop brings us both backwards to the futuristic idealism of yore
and forwards to an expanded realm of potentiality, and that is both a memoriam, antidote, and proactive
social medicine in healing rifts as humanity evolves and becomes more enmeshed, hybridized, and
unified in various ways. Digi Pop focuses on the language of a post-millennium “we” and a social
interconnectedness fostered by both broader consciousness and digital connectedness.
