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Internet Speed

We are living in a highly accelerated digital world where addictive forms of nostalgia and information are readily available to consume at our fingertips.

Thanks to the internet, we have limitless access to content through constantly available online videos, photographs, audios, and records. Search engines, social media platforms, and apps devour our attention and time. Endlessly we scroll, looking for instant gratification as we dive into personalized rabbit holes of information. The connected nature of telecommunications our devices provide us results in the emergence of new ways of seeing and feeling. We might even use this information as a means of arrival and becoming- informing our interactions, expectations, desires and predictions of our worlds.

Internet Speed explores the omnipresence of technological influence through themes of nostalgia, personal identity, futurism, time and space. The works are layered, captivating and thought provoking – demanding the viewer’s time and attention and a closer look to register the information that is to be absorbed. This contrasts with the intake of quick, highly addictive, stimulating content we ingest from the internet. Visualized through references to the internet, and pop and club culture, the artists' work acts as intimate portals and time machines- inviting us to reflect upon how we have come to know ourselves and others through the information we consume from the internet.

Part of The Current, An Artist Award.

November 21st, 2026–May 30th, 2027

Tacoma Art Museum is located on the homelands of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. We recognize and honor the enduring Puyallup people and Coast Salish communities as we strive for a fuller understanding of the histories and currents of this place, and a more equitable future. Tacoma Art Museum is a qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 91-0697444.