Meet Emma Adler of Atlanta

Today we’d like to introduce you to Emma Adler.

Hi Emma, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started taking myself seriously as an artist during the 2020 lockdown. I was a full-time art student in New York and saw the transition from physical to digital artwork. I had already begun my video portfolio, which mostly manifests on YouTube, about three years before the pandemic sparked a huge monetary boom for video and NFT art.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I don’t think any artist would claim to have had a smooth road. Still, for myself, the struggles were really logistics and figuring out how to force my way into this new classification of avant-garde digital work that would live on forever through my digital footprint; how to monetize myself through online platforms, how to protect and copyright my work in an already unregulated marketplace and then how to prove that the work I was doing had meaning. Those were my biggest challenges.

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I knew I would end up in the art world at 17, when I started college with a bachelor’s in visual arts, but I didn’t know that my need to perform would be my main material. I would’ve assumed I would have ended up a painter or a graphic artist, but I went down an even smaller route that would tie in with content and video art, which did not at all have as big a following as it does now, when almost everyone is a digital creator. This is now what I specialize in and study, pop culture and digital culture, and their effects on identity and consumerism. It’s a big topic for me, and I’ve written my MFA thesis on myself as a consumer good to help archive what’s happening in our society right now.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I don’t know that luck has anything to do with art and academia, but it definitely has to do with who we cross paths with. For better or for worse, artists have always had alternative motives or similar interests, and these “clashes” really matter for a healthy ecosystem in the art world.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://EmmaAdler.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmaamiadler?igsh=Z2phdmE5aHFub3I5&utm_source=qr
• Twitter: https://x.com/the1emmaadler?s=21
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@amiadler?si=xM71IwIGujxMr9gc