In Static Individual, Mark Arcamo presents a suite of portraits, one of them his own, showing the fragmented lives we lead on different media. “Static,” as used by Arcamo in the title, does not mean “fixed” or “unchanging.” Instead, “static” refers to interference — crackling, hissing noises, that disrupt telecommunications. Black-and-white depictions of men and women break up into multicolored lattices and pixels, creating a mashup of organic and synthetic imagery. As Arcamo puts it, Static Individual is about “cultural misdirection and media overstimulation.”

Online social networks

have allowed human beings both to curate their lives, presenting carefully crafted facets of themselves to the public, and to spew vitriol as trolls while hiding behind a curtain anonymity. Static Individual reminds us that the avatars that exist

in the online world can be very different from their flesh-and-blood counterparts.

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