Emily Conrad

I've been working in interactive media for well over a decade now, with a focus on tying together web, mobile, and physical platforms. The intersections between technology and people along with the always unexpected and serendipitous results that came out of this exploration is what drives my work.  It's a common misunderstanding that technology is scripted and inflexible, or simply difficult and frustrating by nature. None of these could be further from the truth, and each project I have completed artistic or otherwise seeks to dispel these myths.

Global Orgasm was conceived as a way to highlight the abstraction between sexuality and technology. And as a personal interest, this is an experiment with results and peripheral behaviors that can't be accurately predicted. However, the experiment be played out and observed to help color the layers of female sexuality.

Maia Marinelli

My work often explore the relationship between women and their cultural ecosystem through a broad range of conceptual strategies, including but not limited to: sculpture, land art, photography, performance, and interactive installations. I use my art as a form of cultural-environmental research, influenced by a richly heterogeneous professional background, including journalism, human right activism, anthropology, advertising, interactive design for theater productions and information architecture.

I have spent the last five years supporting my art  through jobs in interactive advertising at major firms. This experience has immersed me in corporate consumer culture, educating me about the manipulative strategies of advertising, with a particular focus on social network strategies. I found myself mediating dual roles. Outwardly, I enacted a female role in a corporate culture in which behavior is highly codified. Inwardly, I was interested by the absurdity of campaigns strategies that studied and objectified not just female, but human behavior at large, to favor the needs of a market.

Global Orgasm combines my professional and artistic practice utilizing tools and language of contemporary advertising culture.