Portfolio
Selected work in expanded print, sculpture, and installation.
Selected work in expanded print, sculpture, and installation.
Ongoing projects, tools, and lines of inquiry that sit alongside the studio work.
A live, browsable map of how Instagram's algorithm carries you from one reel to the next; the data engine behind the Portable Instagram Reels Viewing Devices.
A free tool that turns an artist's photos and writing into a shareable website and downloadable PDF portfolio.
How does the algorithm carry you from one reel to the next? Instagram Reels Mapping records those paths and renders them as a browsable map, the data engine behind the Portable Instagram Reels Viewing Devices. The project turns an invisible, personalised feed into something you can hold and trace; it asks how algorithmic distribution shapes attention, and what survives when you try to archive the ephemeral.
Can you streamline the process of making a website and portfolio? Art schools seem to hand you a formula; can an algorithm implement it? The Artist Website + Portfolio Builder takes an artist's photos and writing and returns a shareable website and a downloadable PDF portfolio. The tool also poses a question about authorship and standardisation: what happens once you automate the conventions of the art-school portfolio? Contact me with any feedback.
Note: a private server stores the photos and keeps emails private. You can also make a site without storing anything, in which case the tool formats everything and hands it right back to you. To edit later, re-upload the folders in the ZIP file to the site.
Writing and reviews on exhibitions, technology, and contemporary art.
J. J. Hellerman works as an artist-researcher, tracking how novel technologies alter the structures through which we communicate and archive.
Working across expanded print mediums (layered transparent prints, 3D-printed and sculptural forms, found and original imagery), she examines the material structures of archives and distribution systems, from the traditional codex and printing press to contemporary CNC fabrication, social media algorithms, AI, and blockchain.
By materialising the volatile architectures of the archive and the systems that carry it, Hellerman shifts focus from content to form, exposing a latent agency in the mechanisms that form, store, and communicate political myths.
Her practice bridges studio work and historiographic research, producing installations, prints, text, and curatorial projects. She currently lives in London and keeps ongoing projects in New York.
For exhibitions, commissions, writing, and curatorial enquiries.
