“Vivian Selbo is a Brooklyn-based, Norwegian-American artist whose work investigates how perception, technology, and point of view distort what we accept as visual truth. Her series “Coin of the Realm” captures iPhone photographs taken through bus windows covered in perforated advertisements, revealing psychedelic glitches produced by camera software, images where the boundary between malfunction, mediation, and meaning collapses. By embracing chance, ambiguity, and algorithmic interference, Selbo exposes the unstable foundations of digital seeing, asking what it means to trust an image when the apparatus itself quietly manufactures illusion.”
—Der Greif Guest Room “Black Box”,
curated by Charmaine Toh & Philippe Pirotte, 11/11/2025
* This glitch is not AI handiwork, it’s computational (meaning digital not analog) photography artifacts.
Initially a pandemic coping mechanism and now a recurring practice, Always Already is my garden rhapsody.
“It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
― Donna J. Haraway,
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
