Artist Statement
I study the terrors of tech policy by day and make art about them by night. Technology and governance speak through abstract diagrams, technical rules, and bureaucracy. I’m more interested in the older languages of myths, symbols, and storytelling, and in making them my own through saturated colors, messy marks, recursion, and inside jokes. Painting and self-aware web work let me leave technical constraints behind and return to emotion, intuition, and what it means to be a human being.
Paintings
Acceleration Hyrdra (2025) – The perfect accelerationist: a hydra of data, capital, and violence. Visit / Read more →
Heart (2024) – Just a nice feeling.
Completely Artistic Paintings to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (2024) – A series of paintings inspired by CAPTCHAs and what they get wrong done at MidMountain. Visit / Read more →
Evergreen Meme (2023) – A painting about a supply chain blockage, an internet joke, and a painting that refused to quit. Visit / Read more →
Web Work
Reflecting Pool (2026) – An experiment "vibe coding" a civic disaster that also felt like it was vibe coded (half-assed). Visit / Read more →
What is Data? (2018) – A cathartic website exploring emerging legal definitions of data and why implementing them is so difficult. Visit / Read more →
New Google (2013) – An enthusiastic search engine from the early open data era, imagining that we could look up government activity as easily as everything else online. Visit / Read more →
Elsewhere
For more information, see her CV or follow along on Instagram or TikTok.
Get in touch
Reach out at art@rebeccawilliams.info. No NFTs please.