Ailsa Madill
My practice explores how gender-based conflicts and ideologies circulating online impact how young people navigate their identity. Juxtaposing found footage of content creators and manosphere influencers with anonymous interviews with young people surrounding such topics, this piece examines how digital spaces both represent and intensify gender-based tensions.
The dual-screen video installation is divided, reflecting the fragmented experience of navigating increasingly polarising online environments. Drawing on Glitch Feminism, I use datamoshing and technological distortion as both an artistic and political strategy to reveal flaws within these oppressive ideological systems. The glitch becomes a form of resistance to expose their instability, disrupt fixed boundaries and explore personal testimony as part of a wider systemic condition.
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