CHOPPED SLOPPED SCREWED

A BLACKNET Production
Curated by Ollie Goss

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9, 2026

Opening Reception: Friday, January 9th | 6pm

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

BLACKnet artist collective’s exhibition, Chopped Slopped Screwed, is an immersive multi-channel video installation that samples and combines the imagined worlds of its members; Zante Moore, Shori “Halie” Sims, and Logan Crompton. As post internet and meme concerned artists the collective often finds themselves ideating on the many forms a post internet society may take, and what space Black people occupy within it. In a world where Black images are commodified in an attention driven economy what does it mean for artists to reclaim and superimpose themselves in both digital and irl spaces?

Chopped Slopped Screwed hits you with retextured mii’s, ripped anime avatars, and meme amalgamations. Zante toys with their custom retextured Mii, Shori “Halie” Sims serves up ps2 lil’ Kim realness, and Logan offers up debaucherous avatars and audio from late nights on IMVU internet chatrooms. Avatars traverse space, walking in and out of frame prompting concerns of perspective: Who do we identify with? Where do we feel seen? The work aims to bring perspective and selfhood into question, tying representation in digital space to concerns of agency. 

The artists embrace a type of everythingism that reflects their lives as Black emerging artists in the U.S while at the same time reflecting outwards. The collaboration is a result of a closed loop of each artist's work as a memory and data bank. It’s pressure cooked through each resampling, purposing new potentials with each chop and screw. In a time where slop oozes its big ugly booty all over the timeline, Chopped Slopped Screwed generates its own type of ooze, presenting to you its slop.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Shori “Halie” Sims [b. Baltimore, MD] is an artist, educator, and cultural theorist. They received their BFA with a minor in Africana Studies from Carnegie Mellon University and their Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their research interests stand at the intersections of cultural anthropology and digital myth-making, with an interest specifically in how specifically African American women and girls find themselves "placed” in space and the world. Through multimedia sculpture and an aesthetic sensibility that straddles the intersections of camp, cute, and abjection: Halie is excited by the moments rupture can be located in contemporary culture. Halie has shown both domestically in the United States and internationally, and currently calls Birmingham, Alabama home as a fine art teacher with underserved populations (@h4l13420)

Logan Crompton [b. 2000, Kansas City, MO] is a Black post internet teaching artist based in Philadelphia, PA. Logan, as an artist, is concerned with Black corporeal realities, transparency, reflectivity, and protection within digital spaces. Their work explores said themes through mythmaking, magic, matrixes, algorithms, and repetition as mantra. Logan received their BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Painting and Art History and their MFA at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Logan was previously a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art and an AXA art prize finalist. They currently are an adjunct professor at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. Logan has shown work in Kansas City, Philadelphia, and New York. (@log3y)

Zante Moore, a post-internet theorist and artist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, earned a BFA in photography from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their work blends photographic installations, sculpture, and video game engines to create imaginative worlds that explore personal life and internet/meme culture. Currently, they are an adjunct photography professor at UIC, previously volunteered at Chicago's D.I.Y print lab Latitude, and actively self-publish indie computer games. (@zante2222)

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Ollie Goss is an artist, puppeteer, and performance-maker whose work blends sculptural installations, animated objects, re-tooled electronics and live performance. They attempt to achieve this through a prefigurative politic, hoping to align the means and the ends within their work. In 2016, they received the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship which took them to seven countries to research puppetry and collaborative performance making. Their work has been shown in places like Icebox Project Space, Temple Contemporary, the Wassaic Project, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Dixon Place and La Mama. They regularly hold performance events throughout Philadelphia and in collaboration with Hannah Tardie annually curate work for the exhibition portion of Electronics Faire. 

Ollie holds an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art and Architecture where they currently teach.