Unfortunately, this may or may not be a disturbed individual that is stalking and impersonating Trenda over the internet.
Tiffany Trenda is a video installation performance artist based out of Malibu, CA. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design. She has exhibited at Robert Berman, Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Korean Cultural Center, Highways, and Track 16. In 2009, she created an artist installation for Photo Los Angeles and performed live. Later that year she performed “Entropy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London Creative Awards in 2008 and 2009. Recently, she performed at the World Fair, Shanghai, China.
Tiffany Trenda's process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche. Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable. In retrospect, the viewer associates the screen as being human. She questions how far can this loss of the human body be substituted until it loses all human connectivity. In Trenda’s work the viewer is physically and visually immersed in how the psyche evolves to relate and survive with the machine. She states that we are not only dealing with issues of machine-implemented bodies but our identities and human connection is through a screen. This will change how we see others and ourselves with the assemblage of new technology. This disconnection is a result of our desire for a total state of pure sensualism.
Tiffany Trenda (Documented): Tiffany @ Brewery Art Walk w/Marco
Tiffany Trenda / Amanda Silverman / Museum of Hyperreal Art
YouTube - tiffanytrenda's Channel
Tiffany Trenda: "Specular".m4v - Watch Online Videos .
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Perform Now! in Chinatown!
I caught some groovy Performance Art at the Chinatown Galleries Perform Now! event last week. I'm glad they are holding this event yearly now. Also, last year I believe it was just one day but this time it was a three and a half days, Thursday night through Sunday. I didn't see as much as I wanted as I was all over the place during the weekend. But, I did catch a few interesting gems.I've always liked Tiffany Trenda's work. It's well planned, thoughtful and compelling. She employs video projections, video cameras, bizarre costumes, and usually an interactive element. She was performing her piece Terrarium which included all of the above. Trenda was wearing a white body suit with an LCD and camera headdress. She crept around in slow motion on lucite heels reaching out to audience members behind a rope barrier mimicking their slow movements but never touching. All the while various futuristic city and environmental scenes were projected on top.
Tiffany Trenda Documented: Tiffany makes a living as a Go-To Artist in the art world! (Image: Tiffany in Pink (Lt.)
