Vivian Selbo’s lens-based practice revolves around information in ambiguity, and ambiguity in information. Her work frequently engages anomalies in digital photography’s language, output of its processor and algorithms, to critique a range of social conditions, in particular the environment, social capital, technology, and gender.
Her Instagram handle — @Involvebias — is an anagram of her name.
Selbo has work in The Walker Art Center’s Digital Arts Study Collection and SFMOMA. She received an Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium grant from the Jerome Foundation, and was a finalist in South by Southwest’s Interactive Art category. Selbo has exhibited at The Institute of Contemporary Art New Media Centre, London, The Walker Art Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Artists Space, New York, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, ada’web, artincontext.com, and Slate.com.
Brooklyn-based, Selbo attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Studio Program (1988-1989) and holds a B.S. in Art from the Univ. of WI, Madison (1983).