ARTIST STATEMENT I work with and within existing infrastructures, informational systems and technological devices. Participating in and entering into dialogue with systems that normally I am not a part of, I seek to make use of them beyond their established capacity. Through questioning their function, I destabilize their prescribed position and viewpoint within society and investigate the potential in the individual's relationship with these systems. In many of my projects there is a need to formulate reciprocation between systems and myself. My work process involves meeting these systems halfway, allowing for an exchange to occur between them and myself. Within this exchange there is potential for a new contract, relationship, or entity to emerge and develop within a system's framework. BIOGRAPHY Laura Alesci was born and raised in a two family house in Queens, New York. Before attending graduate school she worked for several art galleries and documented several exhibitions in New York City. In 2010 she completed her MFA in Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design where she researched existing urban infrastructures and investigated the potential in the individualʼs relationship to structures and systems. Her work was recognized with the RISD Digital + Media Thesis Award for its integration of practice and scholarship. She co-curated, Beautiful and Barbaric at All Times, a Digital + Media departmental exhibition at ARTJAIL in New York City. Currently she lives and works in New York.