Born and raised in Cupertino, California, Jennifer Boyd bore witness to the transition of her sleepy suburban community becoming the Silicon Valley. Boyd is also the mother of two Gen-Z children, children dubbed “digital natives” — the first generation to be fully raised on devices. It is the culmination of these two experiences combined with Boyd’s own participation in technology, specifically in the use of communication, that is the interest and foundation of her work.

Multi-disciplinary, Boyd’s art examines the omnipresence of devices in all of our lives, the ways in which twenty-first century technology connects us personally and globally, and how this ever-present connection has altered our relationships to ourselves and with others. Nuanced themes explored within this broader context are voyeurism, mediated communication, slippage of reality, isolation, and tech addiction. Also of interest to Boyd is how we now communicate through a new truncated and image based language, and the deciphering and decoding that encourages subjective translation.