Charlie White and Amanda Ross-Ho: Unfriend Me

"Conversations With Myself" is a series of talks, lectures, and performances addressing the changing conditions of art making in Los Angeles. Anecdotally driven, developed by artists and writers, the program configures the city as picaresque, as a fibrous warren of narratives that together present the city’s art community as one eschewing being about any one thing, but process itself.

Charlie White, the acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and professor of fine art at the University of Southern California, and APT artist Amanda Ross-Ho, whose work in collage, photography, and large-scale sculpture has helped to define her generation’s visual vernacular, have a candid conversation about the internet and social media's indiscriminate effects on art-making, language, sexuality, and our notions of self. From the jpeg to Jstor, 4chan to Instagram, pornhub to github, and Tor to Tinder, White and Ross-Ho will discuss the radical shift in culture caused by early forms of digital and online communication, bringing us through to the dataization of the internet’s social conditioning platforms, and the loss of anonymity due to self-surveilling mobile applications.