Exhibition Dates: June 5 - June 29, 2019 2nd Saturday Exhibition Reception: June 8, 2019, 7-10pm
My Mother's Maiden Name Exhibition Dates: June 5 - June 29 2019 2nd Saturday Exhibition Reception: June 8, 2019, 7-10pm
Exhibiting Artists: Terry Berlier, Michelle Bonilla Garcia, Kira Dominguez-Hultgren, Joty Dhaliwal, Sarah Lee, Kim Miskowicz, Margaret Nobel, Yetunde Olagbaju, Mimi Onuoha, Julien Previeux, Deborah Stein and tamara suarez porras
What is your mother's maiden name? Who was your first kiss? Banks, credit card companies, and social media sites utilize password security questions when users sign up for an account online. The security questions utilized by corporations realize a subtle system that hinges on potentially harmful emotional triggers and notions of inadequacy. Within this system, corporations attempt to standardize beliefs, knowledge, and values that dictate when and where personal history is trusted to formulate identity and security.
My Mother's Maiden Name analyzes this governance of individual history seen in security questions and implements this question and answer protocol as a precedent to discuss online authorship, culture-construction, and systems of knowledge. The selected artists take a considered approach to the fragility of memory and identity amongst digital data noise to account for information that cannot be quantified through such constructs like security systems.
Exhibiting artists evaluate elements that are not concrete in text, visible data, or public, and instead entrench themselves in the emotions and values that come with answering a security question or using an Apple-patented gesture. These actions tell important histories and beliefs that go beyond what is typed, selected in a drop down menu, or tracked via wifi. My Mother's Maiden Name confronts this regulation of bodies to reveal requisite activism, awareness, and dialog to make changes to systems that shape identity and culture in facilities that are otherwise untraceable.
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