Megan Olinger is a visual artist working in photography and video installation. Her work seeks to participate in the redefinition of photography as ‘the photographic image’ within the context of digital communication and visual culture studies. As the use of photography increasingly functions as a networked image, Megan’s work explores how the algorithmic image effects our personal and collective memory, identity, and politics. Megan’s practice uses both online and offline sources to further the concept of “art after the internet” and explore the evolution of cultural and sociological perception, by addressing issues of authorship, accountability, aesthetics and economics of the networked image.
photo by Kenny X. Li
Megan received her BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Communication Arts with an emphasis on film production, and her MA in Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong. Megan was awarded her PhD from the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, where her research focused on photography’s historical, social, and economic relationship to the use of facial recognition technologies. She has lived and worked in the United States, India, United Kingdom and Hong Kong.