Liz Waterman, known online as Aphex Redditor, is an emerging video & performance artist and VJ. Inspired by the post-internet movement of the 2010’s, she tackles the tangible consequences of contemporary social media culture, highlighting its paradoxes in the vein of speculative realism. Her work emphasizes the role of performativity in online environments, and focuses on how the nature of constant social performance shifts our perspectives on what is public vs what is private. By treating digital platforms as performance spaces in their own right, she deconstructs online social dynamics while simultaneously contributing to them. The internet is boundless with authorless media, which motivates Liz to work with the vast array of images she encounters online through a philosophy of contribution over ownership. Particularly interested in how these images tend to both reflect and construct reality, she harnesses the coded meanings of digital imagery to reflect our contemporary experience; perhaps helping us understand how social reality truly functions in an era that is predominantly experienced online.

Instagram: @aphex.redditor