Ryan Trecartin's YouTube channel

Ryan Trecartin's YouTube Channel.

Ryan Trecartin is infinitely fun to watch. I think these moments are a joyful parody of the leaden "smart" art film. I also think Ryan Trecartin understands persona in the age of social media more naturally than most cultural producers, perhaps due to his comparative youth, where the game is: be interesting or dry up. A massive exercise in video improvisation, through each new staging, his camera-centric dialogues of a sprawling patois sweetly devour.

Flat, externalized "subjectivity" is treated to endless diversions and revisions. Adoption is as immortality for the Facebook crowd.

I sense the secretary for an arts organization hovers behind many the hero of his gender ambivalent serials. Art-work lackeys dressing themselves up in the toys of perpetual fascination: His family.