Alexandra Jonscher
Alexandra Jonscher is an American-Australian artist and curator exploring the entanglements of humans and technology. Originally trained in abstract painting, her practice is rooted in mark-making and expressive gestural abstraction. She draws from Isabelle Graw’s 2016 essay ‘The Value of Liveliness,’ which states that “painting is particularly well positioned in [our contemporary digital] society because it gives the impression of being saturated with the life of its author.” Her work approaches painting as an index of the human interface responding to life in the digital age.
Jonscher’s work expands from painting to installation, sculpture, new media and assemblage combining traditional practices with new media, mechanic, and digital processes, reminiscent of a human encountering a machine with childlike imagination and play. Drawing from the histories of modernist painting, early net art, popular culture, and Internet culture, she grapples with what it means to be human in the digital age, interrogating identity construction, self-hood, world-building and the uncanny valley of the virtual world.
Recently she has been researching collaborations with generative artificial intelligence software as a tool in her painting practice, employing a method of ‘abstract prompting’ to try and prompt the technology to be its own creative agent. Her research aims to employ AI as a collaborator for creative world-building, presenting surreal depictions of humanities’ enmeshment in technology that abstract what is soulful, human and real, while navigating the complexities of authorship, agency and creative expression in this unique technological moment.
Instagram: @allie_jonscher
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