About Michelle Teran (CA)
Michelle Teran often explores the interaction between social networks and urban space in her works. She likes to create connections between these with adaptations of both the physical and the digital online space.
Teran has used maps and urban planning as a starting-point, together with collections of data found on the web, in a number of works. She creates her stories from such finds; images, videos, etc. Sometimes it is these data items that initiate the creative process for Teran. Thus, she often creates site-specific works.
In some cases there is also a performance, associated with Teran’s stories, such as for example in the work Buscando Al Sr. Goodbar (2009). In this work, Murcia has been mapped on Google Maps, with markers of YouTube videos produced in the city. Here Teran creates a relationship between the places where the videos are recorded and the videos on Google Maps. The performative part of the work is a bus ride around in Murcia, which follows a route according to where the videos have been recorded. Here selected videos are re-enacted at the original places by the same people who originally created and participated in these videos.
More Michelle Teran online:
www.ubermatic.org