"Have a Nice Day" by Jennis Li Cheng Tien

What's that smell of rubbish? It comes from the edges of the streets, from stagnating rivers. But the web also has its own waste and Li Cheng Tien digs it out of the digital crevices, recycling it into art.

"Have a Nice Day" is an online project by Jennis Li Cheng Tien, who becomes the net's dustman for the occasion and retrieves lost or reconfigured digital identities.

Photos which had got tangled up in the electrical cavities of frenetic servers dotted around the globe, which Jennis reprocesses with various types of digital distortions.

The artist, who is originally from Taiwan, dilutes the features of unrecognisable faces in watercolour brushstrokes or overlapping filters and pieces of pictures of natural landscapes like veils or layers of a new skin.

Jennis moved to Singapore with her family when she was 14, graduated in interactive media design at Temasek Polytechnic and then worked for the Paprika Interactive Agency. In 2010 she obtained a master's degree in Fine Arts at the Bauhaus in Berlin, a city where her artistic activities began and where she now lives.















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28 June 2011