BIO

Catie Moore is an artist and filmmaker from Albuquerque based in Brooklyn. She graduated with a degree in Film and Art from Northwestern University.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work focuses on cultural dissociation, and how cultural heritage relates to and is shaped by media and technology. I focus on how the discovery and creation of an identity seems inseparable now from technology, and how the result creates both a sense of belonging and of dissociation from stitched-together ideas of “self.” 

I draw influence from techno-Orientalism and cyberfeminism to explore these topics. Both frames of thought examine the relationship between technology and identity–Techno-Orientalism through critiquing the portrayal of East Asian technology and identity within Western media, and cyberfeminism by arguing for the integration of female identity and technology. Working through these two ways of thought–one through the lens of race, the other through gender–has continued to influence the way I think about art and self. I want to argue for the agency that can come when fragments of identity don’t fit together perfectly.

The mixing of mediums has become a solution to the dissociation I’ve often felt when attempting to use art to explore cultural identity, giving me a sense of wholeness that I’ve struggled to find elsewhere. Through video or on canvas, formerly unanswered things become answered somewhere in between. By blending these mediums together, I hope to demonstrate how they can work together to create an idea that no individual element could achieve on its own.