spectral layers of identity that pulse <<>> shift

exploring kinetic energy in digital spaces

fragmenting identity into abstract forms

Ellie Pritts, self portrait taken in Joshua Tree January 2023

memories float like echoes of the people we have loved...

This video takes a deeper look into the creative practice of artist Ellie Pritts on site at her solo exhibition "In The Screen I Am Everything" at bitforms NYC.

"In The Screen I Am Everything" introduces Ellie Pritts’ recursive practice of working with technology in iterative stages. The exhibition presents new works that combine analog video, glitch aesthetics, self-portraiture, and AI-collaborative imagery. Printed portraits, polychromatic flowers, wallpaper murals, and hypnotic video share insight into the artist’s dazzling world of colorful possibility.

"In The Screen I Am Everything" is a metaphor and attitude for much of Pritts’ work celebrating the screen as a playground without the boundaries of physical reality and limitations due to degenerative CMT disease. It is presented as a possibility, a call for presentness and potential. With the constant churn of technology, the artist digs into the biases of AI while challenging herself and viewers to a broader self-understanding.

Digital works from the exhibition available on Zora: zora.co/collect/eth:0x2e1aa38556cd7eb7855a37f83101ee182c7af9b5

"In the Screen I am Everything" exhibition at bitforms gallery NYC

June 29–August 5, 2023

"In The Screen I Am Everything" introduces Ellie Pritts’ recursive practice of working with technology in iterative stages. The exhibition presents new works that combine analog video, glitch aesthetics, self-portraiture, and AI-collaborative imagery. Printed portraits, polychromatic flowers, wallpaper murals, and hypnotic video share insight into the artist’s dazzling world of colorful possibility.

Video (color, silent) 57 sec, loop

As a metaphor and attitude for much of Pritts’ work, "In the Screen I Am Everything" celebrates the screen as a playground without the boundaries of physical reality. In creating this video, Pritts first filmed herself in front of a green screen. Text prompts from her journals were combined with AI and used to generate the environments of each scene. In these varied states of being, the artist embodies different characters. While the title of this artwork alludes to the possibility and potential of digital space, "In the Screen I Am Everything" is presented as a possibility, a call for presentness and potential.

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Video (color, silent) 32 sec, loop

Ellie Pritts' Glitch Fleur series begins with modular video synthesis where the artist manipulates the cadence, pattern, and hue of an analog video stream. The artist then blends footage of real flowers with glitch responses in a dynamic oscillation that gestures towards Pop Art’s bright colors and graphic visuals. Prints from the Glitch Fleur series immortalize moments within each video’s progression, savoring unique moments of stillness. Each component of this series—a wallpaper mural, prints, and video—acts as
technicolor effigy of the artist’s own dreamscape. Citing an intense curiosity surrounding evolving technology and its impact on the creative process, Pritts moves between virtual and physical space with an electrifying similitude that invites the viewer to glimpse into her interior world.

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Video (color, silent) 15 sec, loop

"Relative Minor" is part of series of six videos sold with NFT registration. This series of layered video has both a background and foreground, simultaneously presenting a layer of analog feedback below a mythological dreamscape. The colors and imagery within this work stem from Pritts' own experiences of synesthesia and offer a liminal, technicolor universe where both daydreams and reality occur.

Each video explores a mystical study on the divine feminine through a lens of mindfulness and androgyny. With the constant churn of technology, the artist digs into the biases of software and their lack of understanding surrounding gender, noncorporeal entities, and empathy.

- bitforms gallery

Video (color, silent), 30 sec, loop

"Half Lives" is part of series of six videos sold with NFT registration. This series of layered video has both a background and foreground, simultaneously presenting a layer of analog feedback below a mythological dreamscape. The colors and imagery within this work stem from Pritts' own experiences of synesthesia and offer a liminal, technicolor universe where both daydreams and reality occur.

Each video explores a mystical study on the divine feminine through a lens of mindfulness and androgyny. With the constant churn of technology, the artist digs into the biases of software and their lack of understanding surrounding gender, noncorporeal entities, and empathy.

- bitforms gallery

Video (color, silent) 24 sec, loop

"Ever Sought" is part of series of six videos sold with NFT registration. This series of layered video has both a background and foreground, simultaneously presenting a layer of analog feedback below a mythological dreamscape. The colors and imagery within this work stem from Pritts' own experiences of synesthesia and offer a liminal, technicolor universe where both daydreams and reality occur.

Each video explores a mystical study on the divine feminine through a lens of mindfulness and androgyny. With the constant churn of technology, the artist digs into the biases of software and their lack of understanding surrounding gender, noncorporeal entities, and empathy.

- bitforms gallery

Video (color, silent) 20 sec, loop

"Infinity Granted" is part of series of six videos sold with NFT registration. This series of layered video has both a background and foreground, simultaneously presenting a layer of analog feedback below a mythological dreamscape. The colors and imagery within this work stem from Pritts' own experiences of synesthesia and offer a liminal, technicolor universe where both daydreams and reality occur.

Each video explores a mystical study on the divine feminine through a lens of mindfulness and androgyny. With the constant churn of technology, the artist digs into the biases of software and their lack of understanding surrounding gender, noncorporeal entities, and empathy.

- bitforms gallery