Author: Kylie Ellis Cariddi

Kylie combines play theory, planetary philosophy, and aesthetics in her research and writing. She serves as faculty in the art history department at Eastern Connecticut State University, where she teaches ‘Issues in Contemporary Art,’ ‘Art Since 1400,’ and ‘American Art.’ She has presented at SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) and the Beyond Humanism Conference in Paris. She is completing her dissertation at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts under the direction of Dejan Lukic. She lives with her husband James and their two dogs and two cats in the United States. kelliscariddi@idsva.edu kylieellisc.com

Rituals of the Electronic Elsewhere

This article recasts social media as a threshold for modern ritual in which creators perform devotional labor. Blending theory, history, and performance art, it considers how virality mimics transcendence while users face dread, surveillance, and silence driven by unfeeling algorithms.  Artigo →