Melissa Langer & Roopa Vasudevan: You Can’t Be Your Best When You’re Being Bugged

Friday, September 24, 2021 – Sunday, October 31, 2021
Presented as Part of Future Ecologies

About the Artwork

Melissa Langer & Roopa Vasudevan, You Can’t Be Your Best When You’re Being Bugged, 2021
Series of 3 risograph prints, each measuring 8.5 x 14”; text messaging application

You Can’t Be Your Best When You’re Being Bugged adapts marketing language from pest control services in the Philadelphia region and beyond to hold a mirror to us humans.

Who’s the pest? You be the judge. Text us to find out more.

About the Artists

Melissa Langer is an artist, filmmaker, and Director of Photography who works primarily in non-fiction and experimental film. She is drawn to topics which are simultaneously mysterious and mundane, and which examine some of the more bizarre, contradictory aspects of our human nature. Her works experiment with linear narrative forms and ask viewers to participate in making meaning from a puzzle-like approach to structure.
More Info: melissalanger.com / @melissaalanger

Roopa Vasudevan is a media artist, computer programmer and researcher, currently based in the part of Lenapehoking now known as Philadelphia. Her practice examines social and technological defaults; interrogates rules, conventions and protocols that we often ignore or take for granted; and centers humanity and community in explorations of technology’s impacts on society.
More Info: roopavasudevan.com / @rouxpz