Where man and machine intersect is where you will meet performance and digital media artist Tiffany Trenda, whose apocalyptic aesthetic and soul-baring passion compel us to take a closer look at our relationship with technology. She demonstrates through her live performances that the human/machine interface has become an extension of the body, creating an equilibrium destructive to the organic form as more and more elements of our human existence are becoming simulated inorganically.

Our path of creation and destruction through simulated existence is also expressed through Trenda's photographic and installation work, as in her 2001 video installation Odalisque, a live replication of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' 1814 painting, Le Grande Odalisque. While a beautiful image, the message is clear: as we pursue technological advancement, we must not forget to live as humans, lest we shall all be forever simulated.

- V.S. Magni -