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Tiffany Trenda is an American video installation performance artist from Los Angeles, California. She begun her career in 2001 while attending the Art Center College of Design. She is best known for placing LCD screens on her body and for such works as Body Code and Specular.

Trenda was a student at the Art Center College of Design where she studied Fine Arts. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and later attended the University of California Los Angeles where she studied at the Department of Design and Media Arts and gained a Master of Fine Arts.

Selected Works

She has exhibited at Robert Berman, Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Korean Cultural Center, Highways, and Track 16. In 2009, she created an artist installation for Photo Los Angeles and performed live. Later that year she performed “Entropy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London Creative Awards in 2008 and 2009. In 2010, she performed at the World Fair, Shanghai, China. Most recently, she performed at Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions (LACE), Scope Art Fair Switzerland, Italian Cultural Institute, Performance Art Institute, Miami CONTEXT, and displayed new media works at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles.

Trenda's performances and installations explore the qualities of human flesh as represented in media. She uses screen and imaging technologies, such as LCDs and video projections, to create a performance that encompasses the digital environment. With these elements, she interchange her identity and her physical body with screens. Thus asking the question—how far can we push the visceral qualities of the body until it becomes unrecognizable?

In my body of work she becomes the digitized version of the human body and her actions replicate those of a computer. Trenda creates a platform for questioning the boundary of where the digital impression and the physical body begin and end. The viewer is physically and visually immersed in the process of how the psyche evolves to relate to the screen (LCD, television, cinema, or a computer). We are not only dealing with issues of machine-implemented bodies but our identities and how human connection seen through digital material. So, we are not only using man-made objects to extend and enhance our life, but our social activity has transpired through only the screen apparatus. As technological devices continually become a part of our daily lives, we relate to these them as if they are part of our skin. This will change how we see others and ourselves with the merging of the human body with new technology.