12/19/2025
Congratulations to professor Forstater for joining Tiger Strikes Asteroid and participating in the new member exhibition at the gallery in Greenville, SC!
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Rebecca Forstater’s {Training_camp} examines the creation of public memory in the current AI-fueled rat race through the lens of pop-culture history. The works from Version 2.0 displayed in this exhibition focus on photographed moments of crisis involving female celebrities in the early 2000s that circulated widely as entertainment through early digital media. Forstater utilizes the materiality of emerging AI software to create these works, asking the training models to contextualize the past given the algorithm’s present pool of data. The results, imagery deeply rooted in social and cultural narratives surrounding gender, serve as a case study of biased ideologies embedded in our digital social consciousness. The objects and videos visualize peculiar amalgamations, attempting to reverse the uncomfortable, revealing fleeting instances of progress entangled with societal mistakes, and shapeshifting into new iterations.
Rebecca Forstater (she/they) is a South Carolina–based interdisciplinary artist who received her MFA from Syracuse University and her BFA from James Madison University. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent shows at ArtFields (South Carolina), The Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul), and Future Fair (New York City). She has been an artist in residence on Governors Island (New York) and at the Haubrok Foundation (Berlin). Forstater currently serves as Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Wofford College, is on the board of the New Media Caucus, and is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid GVL.