Helena Shaskevich
Helena Shaskevich is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Kennesaw State University, specializing in feminist new media from the 1960s to the present. Her writing has been published in Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Art Journal, Woman’s Art Journal, Millennium Film Journal, Afterimage, and multiple collected volumes.
Between the infinite and nothingness lies the “data-verse.” This dialectic is at the center of Ryoji Ikeda’s first museum exhibition in the United States at the High Museum of Art. Ryoji Ikeda: data-verse builds on the artist’s growing critical acclaim and affirms his reputation for complex technological work.
Digitality is prone to the invisibility of labor. This is especially the case when that digital labor is collective; oftentimes, the more collective the labor, the more invisible it becomes. Hidden behind interfaces, data sets, and visualizations, the contributions of the many are eschewed for the singularity—the final “object,” if you will.
