Whitney Conti (US/UK b.1986) is a media artist and filmmaker based in London. She has an M.Sc. in Visual Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2012), where she worked on phenomenology in 3D imaging and sound, the history of ‘slutty’ type and the role of the media machine in cultural communication. Since then, she has been working on Birth of the Device & the Post Media Age, her own McLuhan styled survey of our early 21st century media context. Her creative studio, Spectacle Arts, is modelled after 1960s artist studios, such as E.A.T., Nam Jun Paik, Push Pin, Hipgnosis and the EAMES office, which work across commercial and experimental projects. She was the art director of the documentary 'Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn Copeland Story' (2020) which premièred at the Barbican (London) and MoMa PS1 (NY).
Last update of this profile: 2021
