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Maddie Butler

Email:

m1butler@ucsd.edu

Website:

maddiebutler.com

Biography:

I make videos and installations about communication and intimacy. I am interested in inner lives, non-presence and disembodiment, perception, voyeurism, consent, intersubjectivity, narcissism, uncertainty, editing, accessorizing, acting, power, psychoanalysis, growing up, (lack of) cohesion, (lack of) stillness, how technology mediates human interaction, the etymological connection between skin and screen, the relationship between coding and weaving, language, narratives of desire and distance, windows, beds, rain falling on water, provisional endings,  

photo of objects arranged as if in collage with person's face in the corner