Make Out by Luke Shannon and Maya Man at NODE

Make Out is a two-person exhibition that presents the practices of Luke Shannon and Maya Man. Drawing on the artists’ early 2000s online upbringing, the show focuses on how the presentation of self today is filtered through screens and social media platforms. The show emphasizes both artists’ use of software as a medium and how the language of the internet can be used to investigate its own structures.

To “make out” is both to kiss for a long time and to perceive at the edge of resolution. This exhibition doubles down on the term’s dual meaning, working through the blurry ways that romance and parasociality appear when warped by machines.