Kita's World
Martine Syms
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Collection: New Releases , Compilations , Single Artist Compilations
Tags: African-American, Race, Technology, Television
For the video series Kita’s World, Syms created a digital avatar modeled on Cita of Cita's World, the late-1990s BET music video show. Kita is recast in contemporary scenarios, considering the problem of the psychosomatic slip in the digital era, or the psychoanalytic eeriness of a nightmare, or leading the viewer in a meditation. In the series, Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a hyper-digitized world. The character’s roles range from meditation guru to cultural commentator, elaborating on questions of race, gender, and technology prevalent throughout the artist’s practice. In these video works, Syms creates an environment in which being human is inextricably linked to the impact and interruptions of technological innovation.
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Soliloquy is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. In the series, Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a hyper-digitized world. The character’s roles range from meditation…
Collections: Single TitlesTags: African-American, Gender, Race, Technology, Television
Slip is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a hyper-digitized world. The character’s roles range from meditation guru to cultural commentator, and…
Collections: New Releases, Single TitlesTags: African-American, Race, Technology, Television
Meditation is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a hyper-digitized world. The character’s roles range from meditation guru to cultural…
Collections: New Releases, Single TitlesTags: African-American, Race, Technology, Television
Dream Nightmare is from Martine Syms’ Kita’s World series. Kita enacts the performances of everyday life in a hyper-digitized world. The character’s roles range from meditation guru to cultural…
Collections: New Releases, Single TitlesTags: African-American, Labor, Race, Technology