Ellie Pritts

Ellie Pritts’s work combines a mixture of AI and analog video to culminate in a meditation-qua-colorscape of Joshua Tree’s Martian-like desertscapes. Utilizing analog video in their explorations of place and identity (California, United States), Arid Articulations is Pritts’s newest series capturing the martian landscapes of the Mojave Desert. Long known for their surrealist photography of Joshua Tree National Park, this is Pritts’s first video series exploring these themes with modular video synthesis, circuit-bent (glitched) video, and AI-collaborative animations.

From FEMMEBIT and the New California, August 2023