Scream 2.0

The tiles in this mosaic are made up of 649 profile pictures mined from the artist's friends list on Facebook. This resulting self portrait is an evolution of the artist's interest in the images of screaming/suffering/faces which appear so regularly on the internet and which, as they emanate from an atmosphere of chaos and complexity, seem to hark back to the trauma in Edvard Munch's original. But here, this interchangeable personal data, the soup of the digital commons, signifies our social interactions and visual abstractions in the social media realm. This personal data and its many manifestations are reflected in the artist’s pose and the logic for the mode of the collage's construction.