Miri Segal

Based in Tel Aviv, Miri Segal is a new media artist interested in the phenomenological interactions that occur between the body of the viewer and the work of art. With a background in mathematics, Segal is less concerned with how her art will look than “what it would do to the viewer,” employing a number of optical and perspectival illusions throughout her videos and installations. Though her pieces are often compared to the work of Marcel Duchamp and Dan Graham, Segal’s artistic sleights of hand are made explicitly visible, anchoring her work and the viewer’s experience in the physical present. Recently Segal has extended her practice to the online realm, creating videos of her explorations of the virtual world Second Life. Google Mask, for instance, is a screenshot of the avatar Segal used to survey the online environment, reflecting the pervasive influence of corporations like Google on our everyday lives.

Segal’s work has been exhibited internationally, at venues including MoMA PS1, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Zabludowicz Collection in London, the Tate Modern, and the Haifa Museum of Art.