Andy King (b. 1988) is a digital media artist whose work explores internet subcultures, loneliness, and human relationships in the digital age. Her practice focuses on the increasingly blurred boundaries between truth and fiction, online and offline life, and public and private spaces.
Sometimes working with found images and videos, and at other times building large-scale sets in her studio, King creates photographs and installations that play with perceptions of the real and the simulated. Images may be manipulated to appear documentary and authentic, while carefully constructed physical sets are often designed to resemble computer-generated or 3D-rendered environments.
Much of King's recent work looks at online communities and new forms of intimacy shaped by technology. Her research has explored subjects ranging from voluntary celibate communities and online radicalisation to fictosexuality, dating simulators, and parasocial relationships. Rather than focusing on these groups as isolated phenomena, she examines the wider social conditions β such as unemployment, isolation, and anxiety about the future β that shape people's experiences online.