Jillian Mayer guides YouTuber users with a makeup tutorial that teaches viewers how to hide from cameras and facial recognizing algorithms. “We all know that cameras are watching our every step,” warns Mayer. The implementation of this makeup tutorial in your everyday life will be key to existing track free.
"Once you go through this transformation, friends will no longer be able to auto-tag you on Facebook. That is if you still have friends after a week walking around this way." The Creators Project
"Instead of going as Edward Snowden or digging out that tattered skeleton outfit, you could simply apply a little makeup to become a new kind of Halloween ghost: The Person Impervious to Face-Recognizing Cameras.
According to a helpful makeup video on YouTube, all you need is some tape, scissors, eyeshadow and something called CV Dazzle. " - Motherboard
Jillian Mayer steeps her artistic practice in the verisimilitude of a generation that came of age in the 1980s. Indebted to the cultural constructions of the sitcoms of her childhood but looking ahead to the infinite implications of the Internet, Mayer uses photography, video, drawing, installation, online platforms and performance to enact scenarios of apathy, dysfunction, and disillusionment and tease out the pathways and pitfalls of postmodern identity formation while considering our increasing integration with the web.
She investigates the (im)possibility of authenticity and the multiplicity of authorship by co-opting the visual language and tools of Google, online chat boards, and viral videos. Cloaked with humor, fast editing, and pop soundtracks, Mayer's videos are designed for mass appeal but ask big questions about human connection and manufactured realities. Her work lives in, and is activated by, viewer participation.
In 2010, her video Scenic Jogging was one of the 25 selections for the Guggenheim’s Youtube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video and was exhibited at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; and Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany.
Recent solo projects include Family Matters at David Castillo Gallery, Miami (2011), Love Trips at World Class Boxing, Miami (2011), Erasey Page at the Bass Museum of Art (2012), Precipice/PostModem at Locust Projects, Miami (2013) for which the gallery received a Harpo Foundation grant. Currently, Mayer has is the Salt9 artist with a solo show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts till July 2014. Mayer is currently at work on an artist book to be released by [name] Publications and on a show at the University of Maine Museum of Art.
Her video works and performances have been premiered at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. She was recently featured in Art Papers and in ArtNews discussing identity, Internet and her artistic practices and influences.
Mayer is a recipient of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium's Visual/Media Artists Fellowship 2011, Cintas Foundation Fellowship 2012, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. This year she has been awarded the Elsewhere Museum/NEA Southern Constellation Fellowship, Zentrum Paul Klee Fellowship (Bern, Switzerland) and the Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship.
Mayer is the front woman for #PostModem, a performance collaborative that makes meta-pop music based in art/web theory. Their original songs will be used in a feature length musical film that Mayer is writing, directing and producing in collaboration with Lucas Leyva. The satirical film takes place in the future and tackles digital identity and net neutrality. The film extends to software apps, poetry, installations and Internet experiences.
Mayer is represented by David Castillo Gallery.
website: JillianMayer.net