Liz Mputu | |
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Born | Elizabeth Mputu |
Nationality | Congolese American |
Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Elizabeth Mputu is an artist based in Orlando, Florida. [1] Mputu is a "multiplatform, multimedia artist who engages in work which relates to sex, gender, race and queerness". [2] Mputu works within a space of feminist net art to understand the whiteness and privilege on the internet. [2] Mputu constructs projects using interactive media, video, sculpture and installation. [2]
Mputu is a first-generation Congolese American. [1] Mputu first began working creatively with technology during high school by journaling, writing poetry, curating content on Tumblr, editing Myspace photos and making lip sync videos on YouTube. [1] Mputu dropped out of DePaul University and then went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a semester while studying performance art. [1] As of 2016 [update], Mputu was working in Orlando, Florida as a freelance Social Media marketer while also selling artwork. [1]
TeachMeTeaseMe was a Facebook group created by Mputu. It is archived on Tumblr at ( https://teachmeteaseme.tumblr.com/). Mputu created this online forum to comfort people on topics related to sex, sexuality, the taboo, body positivity and gender identity. [1] It was moderated with the intent to educate and facilitate dialog around sexuality [1] It was deleted from Facebook after one year. [1]
Broken Windows is an interactive web browser project that transports the viewer into new insights via the mystical alliance of digital guides, [3] These guides, or "windows", appear in the form of varying ‘clickable’ objects positioned throughout different sets presented on the screen. [3] The worlds explored include the realities of a police state that has weaponized surveillance, as well as the reactions of a public that rebels against it. [3] Broken Windows is a look into how these groups of people are then subject to further violence that can at times be lethal on both sides. [3] For example, the police raids and the civil riots that challenge those tactics. [3]
LVLZ Healing Center is an installation that Mputu created and was displayed at Interstitial in Georgetown/Seattle, WA. [4] This installation was Mputu's first physical art piece, since all of Mputu's previous work was digital. [4] The space was divided into four “portals of healing” which all encompass an “art therapy pod”. [5] Each pod is meant to simulate and represent another space. [4] For example, "Pod 1: Welcome Center", "Pod 2: Level A" is a waiting room, "Pod 3: Level O" is a media and learning center, and "Pod 4: Level Zed" is an apothecary. [4] The whole exhibition uses "video, interactive media, sculpture, and installation… [to] reconstruct our notions of well being". [6]
Cyber Serenity is a project created by Mputu that targets those who need therapeutic attention. [7] Individuals who have stressors involving self-worth, the internet, and/or artistic dilemmas are the intended audience for this site. [7] The project aims to provide "art therapy, holistic healing, internet related self-care and spiritual consultation". [7]
Liz Mputu | |
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Born | Elizabeth Mputu |
Nationality | Congolese American |
Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Elizabeth Mputu is an artist based in Orlando, Florida. [1] Mputu is a "multiplatform, multimedia artist who engages in work which relates to sex, gender, race and queerness". [2] Mputu works within a space of feminist net art to understand the whiteness and privilege on the internet. [2] Mputu constructs projects using interactive media, video, sculpture and installation. [2]
Mputu is a first-generation Congolese American. [1] Mputu first began working creatively with technology during high school by journaling, writing poetry, curating content on Tumblr, editing Myspace photos and making lip sync videos on YouTube. [1] Mputu dropped out of DePaul University and then went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a semester while studying performance art. [1] As of 2016 [update], Mputu was working in Orlando, Florida as a freelance Social Media marketer while also selling artwork. [1]
TeachMeTeaseMe was a Facebook group created by Mputu. It is archived on Tumblr at ( https://teachmeteaseme.tumblr.com/). Mputu created this online forum to comfort people on topics related to sex, sexuality, the taboo, body positivity and gender identity. [1] It was moderated with the intent to educate and facilitate dialog around sexuality [1] It was deleted from Facebook after one year. [1]
Broken Windows is an interactive web browser project that transports the viewer into new insights via the mystical alliance of digital guides, [3] These guides, or "windows", appear in the form of varying ‘clickable’ objects positioned throughout different sets presented on the screen. [3] The worlds explored include the realities of a police state that has weaponized surveillance, as well as the reactions of a public that rebels against it. [3] Broken Windows is a look into how these groups of people are then subject to further violence that can at times be lethal on both sides. [3] For example, the police raids and the civil riots that challenge those tactics. [3]
LVLZ Healing Center is an installation that Mputu created and was displayed at Interstitial in Georgetown/Seattle, WA. [4] This installation was Mputu's first physical art piece, since all of Mputu's previous work was digital. [4] The space was divided into four “portals of healing” which all encompass an “art therapy pod”. [5] Each pod is meant to simulate and represent another space. [4] For example, "Pod 1: Welcome Center", "Pod 2: Level A" is a waiting room, "Pod 3: Level O" is a media and learning center, and "Pod 4: Level Zed" is an apothecary. [4] The whole exhibition uses "video, interactive media, sculpture, and installation… [to] reconstruct our notions of well being". [6]
Cyber Serenity is a project created by Mputu that targets those who need therapeutic attention. [7] Individuals who have stressors involving self-worth, the internet, and/or artistic dilemmas are the intended audience for this site. [7] The project aims to provide "art therapy, holistic healing, internet related self-care and spiritual consultation". [7]