Can the art history canon adapt to digital globalization? What is the role of an artist when the relationship between cultural production and cultural consumption is blurred by the digital paradigm?
Subverting the tropes of Western art history through technology, the work of Indian-American artist Tara Kelton poses these questions with poignant humor. 3D interpretations of Cézanne’s still lives, self-portraits commissioned from Amazon workers, and plen air painting references on a virtual reality platform are some of the ways Kelton disrupts art clichés with playful irony. The artist also invites us to explore her city, Bengaluru, the “Silicon Plateau” of India, where technology companies around the world source both skilled and unskilled labor. Where do you fit into this global economy of ours?
