About Nora Wheat
Nora Wheat is a multimedia artist who makes art from trash. She works in digital mixed-media sculpture and digital college (assembled from discarded and low-res digital media) to explore themes of marginalized identity. Her selection of objects is rooted in genre fiction, which has historically been allegorical, commenting on real-world inequalities. She draws on the vocabularies of genre fiction but reverses its relationship with the "real" world, creating work that examines our reality as an allegory for the situations of genre fiction. She explores our relationship with beings cast as "other", such as robots and monsters, and interrogates the author's position of power in constructing them. Through her “low media” inspired work, she hopes to engage viewers in conversation with the media they consume, and tap into the imaginative potential of genre fiction to envision what our society could be.