JULIAN BRANGOLD

Multimedia artist making art mostly with computers

julianbrangold@gmail.com

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Julián Brangold's work explores the visual and symbolic structures that emerge from contemporary internet culture and the broader technological complex. Moving across digital image making and AI assisted processes, painting and print, video, sound design and installation, his practice examines how online aesthetics shape perception, memory, and the ways images circulate and accumulate meaning. Brangold often works through remixing and iteration, drawing from memetics and obscure internet niches, viral phenomena, and the flow of the digital feed. His projects investigate how images mutate as they move through networks, how context erodes online, and how new forms of significance appear through the friction between understanding and ambiguity. Brangold’s work has been presented in exhibitions in Argentina and internationally, reflecting an ongoing interest in the shifting relationship between technology, visual culture, and the construction of concensus.

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SOFT EDGE PHENOMENA

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SOFT EDGE PHENOMENA

WORK SERIES
 2023 - 2024

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A project conformed of a group of memes that refuse easy interpretation, posted on the artist’s Instagram page throughout several months, works that deliberately stretch the limits of contextual meaning and play with the unstable conditions that make an image legible online. Each meme is constructed to feel familiar and distant at the same time. Alongside the images, the project included a book titled “Unraveling Soft Edge Phenomena - A Holistic Interrogation Into Viral Memeplexes” written as a companion text that also cannot be read in any conventional sense. The book mirrors the opacity of the images and suggests that meaning in digital culture might often emerge less from clarity than from the pleasure of misreading and filling in the gaps. Together, the images and the book form an experiment in readability, pointing to the strange beauty that appears when understanding is no longer the goal.