Martine Syms MFA ’17 Interviewed in PIN-UP Magazine

Artist and Bard alumna Martine Syms MFA ’17 was interviewed in PIN-UP magazine. In conversation with Jordan Richman, Syms discusses how her upbringing in Los Angeles impacted her interest in film, how media shapes culture and identity, her experiences with museums and art institutions, and the origin of fictional versions of herself in the forms of an AI model and the character in her semi-autobiographical sitcom She Mad. “At this point, the real and fictional Martines are very different,” Syms told Richman. “But in 2015, I was pulling from my own life experience because I was exploring representation. I was envisioning a fictionalized version of my own life in the traditional sitcom format, which was somewhat outdated in 2015, but which I felt was being reinscribed on Instagram.” Syms describes how the real and fictional Martines diverged several years later with her project Intro to Threat Modeling, “Which I made in 2017, when I started working with AI and AR. I had just finished this complicated AR app when ARKit dropped. It became much easier. I already had a 3D model of myself that I kept improving. I was learning ARKit and Blender with it. Teenie, which is what I call the model, became its own thing.” 

Post Date: 11-25-2024