Lorna Mills's work explores how "the notion of public decency is anachronistic" Lorna Mills's use of GIFs are gathered through the dark net which includes 4chan, pornfails, and Russian domains.
24 Facts About Lorna Mills
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In 1990, Lorna Mills was a founding member of the Red Head Gallery, an artist-run gallery, in Toronto.
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Around this time, Lorna Mills began her career in solo and group exhibitions.
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In 1994, Lorna Mills began working as a game programmer for children's CD-ROMs and then for web programs.
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Lorna Mills emphasized on how most of her animations were interactive, but did not stimulate much interest to her during this part of her career.
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McKay asked Lorna Mills to join and post on her blog called Digital Media Tree.
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From this collaboration Lorna Mills realized there was opportunity for her to make her own graphics.
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Lorna Mills co-curated a GIF exhibition with Anthony Antonellis in Berlin titled When Analog Was Periodical.
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In 2014 Lorna Mills was selected to curate a "pavilion" as a part of the Wrong Biennial, an online net-art biennial.
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Lorna Mills curated a video series, entitled Ways of Something, based on art historian John Berger's 1971 documentary Ways of Seeing.
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Lorna Mills participated in The House in the Sky exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London.
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Lorna Mills has stated that this is due to the fact that internet art like hers that can be based on images that she finds from surfing on the web can encourage lengthy production.
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In 2016 Lorna Mills was the keynote speaker at the Pratt Institute's Pratt Upload patterns of the Mind.
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Lorna Mills is represented by TRANSFER in Brooklyn, New York and DAM Gallery in Berlin.
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In 2024, Lorna Mills work is included in the group exhibition Sea Change at the Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
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The title of the show was taken from a book by Peter Matthiessen and was chosen to echo "the purposeful non-sense that aligns with the visual content of the show" This show for Lorna Mills was one she always wished to do at Transfer and finally having the right equipment she was able to do the show.
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Lorna Mills was invited to mount a solo show of then-new gif works at the Marshall McLuhan Salon in the Canadian Embassy in Berlin for Transmediale 2015.
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Lorna Mills was hesitant about doing this project due to the phrases "Sheroes" and "herstory".
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Originally the collaboration consisted of 6 artists for the first GIF projections, but due to the excitement of it, Lorna Mills had gathered more artists.
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Lorna Mills goes on to say that her work suggests "in a world of seemingly limitless porn, the notion of decency is anachronistic".
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Therefore, Lorna Mills finds it hilarious to exhibit digital art and sensor it at the same time.
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When creating a new art work Lorna Mills begins to search certain websites for source material.
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Lorna Mills then removes the subjects she has chosen from their surrounding background frame by frame.
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When she puts the images together Lorna Mills aims to create a piece where the GIFs are moving independently but relate to one another.