Jenna Rose Marti is a multidisciplinary artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She works across various media and materials from photography, creative technologies, and experimental filmmaking creating work at the crossroads of humanity, technology and the natural environment. She has shown work nationally across the United States and internationally and has work in the permanent collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Art Gallery. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Studio Art with an emphasis in Digital Studio Practice and a cross emphasis in Photography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Artist Statement
In an age where the divide between the digital and real world no longer exists, where do we find solace? More importantly, what does it mean to be human? My practice reflects my coming of age against the backdrop of digital culture, where innovation in technology and cyberspace facilitate a rupture within my girlhood and worldview. Through time based and process driven methods—artifacts of the digital landscape serve as a vehicle and metaphor for my personal narratives. In my image based work, I utilize an interdisciplinary practice of photography and creative technologies to address ways which digital media is often used to seek community, self expression, and reprieve from the pressures of everyday life. I draw inspiration from science fiction and fantasy, imploring cyber aesthetics and subtle hints of bitter sweet nostalgia within muted and cool palettes. These images retreat somewhere between utopia and dystopia—cultivating environments that are neither malevolent nor benevolent, rather they are lonely, detached, and apprehensive.
With a sympathetic and intimate approach to technology I ask viewers to reconsider what it means to have a soul in a post human world.