ArtPrize - Sep. 23 - Oct. 8, 2009 - Grand Rapids, MI
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belinda haikes
Greensboro, North Carolina

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Artist bio

Belinda Haikes is an interdisciplinary artist working in media arts, drawing, printmaking, and animation. Influenced by having lived in three countries by the time she was 15, her work is centered on the poetics of identity construction in the post-human world. Recent exhibitions include the Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Center for the Digital Art, Village Nomad, France, Digital Fringe, Australia, York University Gallery, Toronto and the Weatherspoon Museum in North Carolina. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Media Art and Text Program at Virginia Commonwealth University where her dissertation focuses on how intimacy is constructed through the technologically constructed work of art. Her most recent project The 20 Friends I Wish I had can be found online on Facebook.
About the work
Title: The 20 Friends I wish I had

Art form: 2-D, Internet / Interactive

Medium: paintings and facebook profiles

Year created: 2010

Description of work: The 20 Friends I Wish I had

Who do you wish you could be friends with? Who would it be? Would they be musicians, artists, politicians, hmanitarians? For this Project I have constructed the online identities 20 Friends I wish I had. Converging the iconic aesthetic of facebook with the nostalgia of Victorian Silhouettes, this work plays with our notions of online and intimate identity. You can contact them on their corresponding facebook pages, just click on the badge to be taken to their page where you can friend them, and be their friend too.

Technical details
Linear wall space needed: n/a
Total square feet needed: n/a
Additional considerations
Audio/video needed: No
Electrical needed: Yes

To hook up computer
Lighting needed: No
Internet access needed: Yes
Ground floor access needed: No
Indoor space needed: Yes
Outdoor space needed: No
Women's City Club - Exhibition Center belinda haikes is showing at:
Women's City Club - Exhibition Center
254 East Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

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