Molly Soda facts for kids

Amalia Soto, known as Molly Soda, is an artist who creates art using the internet. She uses many online tools like videos, GIFs (short looping videos), and online magazines called zines. Her art is shown both on the internet and in art galleries. Molly Soda's art often looks at how technology changes how we see ourselves. She also explores ideas about modern feminism and how social media affects our lives. In 2017, Molly Soda helped create a book called Pics or It Didn't Happen: Images Banned from Instagram with Arvida Byström.

About Molly Soda

Molly Soda was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. She studied photography at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City and finished her degree in 2011. Molly Soda has said that performance artists like Marina Abramović and Carolee Schneeman have influenced her work. Since 2011, she has worked in different cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York.

Online Fame

Molly Soda started writing blogs when she was a teenager. In the late 2000s, her Tumblr blog became very popular. She became known as an online celebrity for her art that felt like teen confessions. Many people copied her unique style on the internet. In 2011, she was part of a new online style called seapunk. She even sometimes danced as a backup for the techno-pop musician Grimes.

Molly Soda's Art Projects

Molly Soda first became known for her college project called Tween Dreams. This project was a series of videos on YouTube. It was later released on VHS tapes. The videos were about a group of preteen friends growing up in the suburbs in the 2000s. They showed the drama of high school dances, chatroom fights, and meeting boys at the mall. Molly Soda played every character in the videos herself.

Notable Works

• Inbox Full (2013): This was a ten-hour-long video performance. Molly Soda read out loud every message from her Tumblr inbox. People found her honest way of showing herself very refreshing. This work was shown at a digital art auction organized by curator Lindsay Howard.
• Should I Send This? (2015): As part of this art project, Molly Soda shared images of herself. She wanted to show that women should feel good about themselves. She believed women should take control of how they are shown in media and art by taking their own pictures.
• Virtual Spellbook (2015): This project was on an internet platform called NewHive. It looked at how people use technology. It also playfully used ideas from Wicca, a traditional female perspective. The project offered interactive "spells" to help deal with technology.
• From My Bedroom to Yours (2015): In this art piece, Molly Soda mixed Tumblr styles and internet culture. She created a space that looked like her own bedroom or studio. This showed her vulnerability. She designed the art gallery to feel like a private room. She wanted people to take things more seriously in a real-life space than online. This work created a feeling of closeness by making the gallery look like Molly Soda's own bedroom.

Awards and Exhibitions

Molly Soda has shown her art in many places. She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Bloomington, and London, England. In 2017, Molly Soda won the Lumen Founders' Prize. She received this award for an augmented reality project. She worked on this project with Nicole Ruggiero and a group from Berlin called Refrakt.

See also

• Post-Internet