‘It Always Comes Back to My Own Embodiment’: Watch Artist Rachel Rossin Merge Plexiglas Molds of Her Body With Digital Painting, δημοσίευση στο Artnet [6/10/2022]
Rachel Rossin has made art her entire life, even if she didn’t always realize it.
A self-taught computer programmer, Rossin learned to hack games, break them apart, and try to reconstitute them, learning how the “backend” worked from the inside out. Saving images of avatars from the games, Rossin built up an archive that she would mine later to make virtual-reality works. that blend three-dimensional sculptures based on her own body with elements from games like Call of Duty and characters in the style of Japanese manga.