Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright is a young artist living in Santa Barbara (California). Her work, consisting in digital images and videos, is both conceptually deep and visually entertaing. Languages, myths and aestethics of web culture, especially the outdated ones (ascii drawings, 8bit graphic, animated gifs) are the raw material for her creations, that are lively, funny and somehow disturbing. This “low-res” and “fast” quality is, in the end, what makes this work so powerful.
In Petra’s own words: “I try to be better at this but i am a really impatient person. gifs and webcams are so fast, low file size, load fast, they are almost scraps. i like not having the commitment of working with hi def vid/images. it just sucks how serious you have to be, it requires too much thinking. gifs are lil treasures of the internet, its so great when you stumble onto a huge unknown index that you hadn’t seen before.” (interview source)

www.petracortright.com
http://vimeo.com/user292256