Leer.net is a response to voyeuristic behavior towards female identifying people in cyber spaces. The collages in this body of work visually complicate what it means to look at a supposedly living being on a screen. By appropriating internet imagery (both real and fabricated), this work pulls its source material from its subject, and critiques the treatment of female identifying people online. Text and imagery are pulled from the artists’ lived experiences within internet spaces as children and into adulthood and reclaim, then dismantle, the voice and eye of the internet voyeur. Through the use of photography, soft sculpture, and mixed media the intangibility of cyber spaces is thrust into a heavily tactile dimension where internet anonymity is sloughed off and the gendered materials and colors recondition the parameters of a female-identifying body existing as a consumable object in an online world.
As friends and past collaborators in their MFA program at the University of Missouri, Lisa and Savannah have a history of playful and subversive collaboration that exist at the cross section of internet art, satire and feminism.