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How do we balance past, present and techno-uncertainty?
My practice explores autoethnography as a living dialogue between the self, technology, and evolving systems of artificial intelligence. It is a scary time for traditional painters such as myself, but trying to navigate and explore this dialogue through painting and traditional material processes, I trace embodied experience. Especially, the importance of communicating vulnerability and authencity via digital perception to reshape how identity is constructed and mediated in our contemporary spaces. I am interested in the tensions between intimacy and the algorithm; can we communicaty authencity in artifical spaces?
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inversion-vert, acrylic + digital 6 x 4”, 2026.
Painting is texture, strokes and materiality. Digital is pixels, programming and liminal. How can the co-exisit? Via integrating digital exchanges I extend the canvas beyond its physical limits, allowing it to exist as both object and interface. These layered processes create a feedback loop in which personal narrative is refracted through technological systems, producing new forms of authorship and agency.
Inversion-vert looks at both being an introvert in my online pressence but, inverting the roles of painting and digital art to explore and retain emotional and ethical depth in an era increasingly shaped by automation, and how painting can remain a critical site for reflection within this shifting terrain.
Mediating the self
physical + digital
duality of occupying space
embodied creating in a digital age
between self and other, acrylic + digital 6 x 4”, 2024.
disinform
acrylic and digital, 2026.
I construct false identities online as protective skins. Thinking about hpw we have fake usernames, spam emails , it helps us in masking data traces while exposing their fragility.
These paintings exisit between authentic self and fabricated persona via digital perception.
I occupy a liminal space where privacy becomes performance. These constructed doubles resist surveillance, yet generate new vulnerabilities, questioning who owns identity and how truth dissolves across layered digital selves in networked realities.
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How do we balance past, present and techno-uncertainty?
My practice explores autoethnography as a living dialogue between the self, technology, and evolving systems of artificial intelligence. It is a scary time for traditional painters such as myself, but trying to navigate and explore this dialogue through painting and traditional material processes, I trace embodied experience. Especially, the importance of communicating vulnerability and authencity via digital perception to reshape how identity is constructed and mediated in our contemporary spaces. I am interested in the tensions between intimacy and the algorithm; can we communicaty authencity in artifical spaces?

inversion-vert, acrylic + digital 6 x 4”, 2026.
Painting is texture, strokes and materiality. Digital is pixels, programming and liminal. How can the co-exisit? Via integrating digital exchanges I extend the canvas beyond its physical limits, allowing it to exist as both object and interface. These layered processes create a feedback loop in which personal narrative is refracted through technological systems, producing new forms of authorship and agency.
Inversion-vert looks at both being an introvert in my online pressence but, inverting the roles of painting and digital art to explore and retain emotional and ethical depth in an era increasingly shaped by automation, and how painting can remain a critical site for reflection within this shifting terrain.
Mediating the self
physical + digital
duality of occupying space
embodied creating in a digital age

between self and other, acrylic + digital 6 x 4”, 2024.
disinform
acrylic and digital, 2026.
I construct false identities online as protective skins. Thinking about hpw we have fake usernames, spam emails , it helps us in masking data traces while exposing their fragility.
These paintings exisit between authentic self and fabricated persona via digital perception.
I occupy a liminal space where privacy becomes performance. These constructed doubles resist surveillance, yet generate new vulnerabilities, questioning who owns identity and how truth dissolves across layered digital selves in networked realities.
Ally Zlatar // allyzlatar@gmail.com // @allyzlatar
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The images on this site may not be reproduced or downloaded.