waambat, whose given name is Lindsay Scoggins, is a Los Angeles-based artist whose experimental animation style first gained traction on YouTube in 2008.,She calls her works video paintings, made by collaging material mined from across the internet, from memes and spam to imagery drawn from the adult industry and the dark web.
One of her early videos was selected for the Guggenheim's YouTube Play program from more than 23,000 worldwide submissions, and her work Wonderland Mafia was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2010.As YouTube's recommendation algorithm shifted toward mainstream content, she found her unconventional style increasingly buried, and she eventually left the platform.,In 2017 she made visuals for a Hans Zimmer concert, and her animation loop Abacus RAM was exhibited at the LA Art Show and at Installation Gallery in Los Angeles.,That same year, a large-scale video installation she made for an 80-foot ceiling display in New York, built with technologist Ian Shelanskey to refresh its imagery daily from Associated Press photographs, drew complaints from building tenants and was eventually taken off its original form.
Since moving into web3, she has released video paintings as NFTs on objkt in an ongoing, lettered Quantum series, in which collectors assemble smaller works called Elements into full Quantum editions that also function as whitelist spots.,In the series, she uses rotoscoping to remove male figures from adult-film scenes, isolating and adorning the remaining female figures. Her video Body Paint, made as what she called a gift for Instagram's content-scanning algorithm, submerges her body in waves of pixelated, datamoshed color so that its nudity is visible only in motion.
In 2023 she was interviewed alongside Gretchen Andrew for Right Click Save's "Artists Against Algorithms," discussing how their practices resist and subvert algorithmic control.Her work has also been included in “Artists Who Code”, a group exhibition of generative art NFTs by women and non-binary artists presented by Vellum LA and Artsy in support of Girls Who Code.,
