2012-2017

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Digital Fallout is a series of more than one hundred glitch portraits that emerged from accidental disruptions encountered online in both China and the United States. Generated during moments of unstable connectivity (when slowing bandwidth, buffering, and digital interruptions fracture the image) the works capture fleeting visual distortions produced by the network itself.

 

Rather than treating these glitches as technical errors, the series frames them as traces of a contemporary condition, the instability underlying our seemingly seamless digital lives. Each portrait records a moment when the flow of information falters, producing what might be described as a form of “digital fallout".

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Digital Fallout reflects on the growing centrality of the Internet in shaping everyday experience. As online infrastructures increasingly mediate social interaction, perception, and identity, the series considers how moments of interruption reveal the fragile systems upon which this connectivity depends. Through these accidental distortions, the work invites viewers to consider the relationship between human presence, technological mediation, and the environments we inhabit.