E09 Howard Melnyczuk

Howard Melnyczuk explores the relations between digital culture and power by seeking means of using the former to confront the latter. His conceptual artistic explorations problematize casual uses of technology, inquiring into the different ways we naturalize the impact that it has on our sense of privacy, world-views and identities. In doing so, he seeks “loopholes” in the neo-liberal digital environment, where the same technologies might be used for creating awareness and resistance against the underlying power structures. Howard’s means of artistic expression vary from photography to installation, to code, and present a critical re-appraisal of the new reality we are all subjected to.