Oska Robertson is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Auckland, New Zealand. Past works have comprised of video/film, photography, sculpture, painting and installation. Currently residing in Auckland, Oska has recently completed his BFA at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design.
Oska’s work explores our new mechanized ecology. Examining how objects contain broad webs of connections and data relationships and how these networks might be mined to better understand them. Simultaneously, Oska explores the ambiguity of intent in media and private organisations and how the arbitrary nature of truth within these outfits might affect our environment, relationships, culture, beliefs, economy, politics and societal infrastructure.
Information phenomenology in terms of the expansivity, accessibility, curation and control of data has manifested itself in Oska’s practice. Part of this interest extends into looking at the systems engrained in reality. Understanding that we live in an age of collective intelligence and fluidity of information, that is diffuse, open sourced and made of many small connected things.