Jillian Mayer (born June 24, 1984) is a visual performance artist and filmmaker. She was born in Miami and is based there today. Mayer's video works and performances have been displayed at galleries and museums internationally and film festivals such as SXSW and Sundance. Her work tends to focus on topics of technology and the Internet, and Rob Goyanes of Artsy has written that Mayer "probes the question of how technology is increasingly integrated into our lives...employing equal parts dystopian parody and real sincerity." Early life and education Jillian Mayer was born in Miami in 1984 and graduated with a BFA from Florida International University in 2007. Career Soon after graduating from college, Mayer was commissioned to create an experimental performance for Miami Light Project's 2010 Here & Now theater festival. The result was a short satirical musical called Mrs. Ms in which Mayer attempts to marry her pet Chihuahua, only to discover that he has been unfaithful. Also in 2010, she created a series of painted cut-out boards called "Getting to Know You", similar to cut out board scenes, including a series of photos posing with the boards. Film Mayer's short film Scenic Jogging was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2010 as part of YouTube Play, and was selected as one of the event's 25 winners, which were also shown at the sister museums in Bilbao, Berlin, and Venice. In 2011 she released the one minute short film I Am Your Grandma on YouTube, which went viral with over 4 million views. The film features Mayer giving a message to her eventual grandchildren in a variety of strange, futuristic costumes. CBS blogger William Goodman described it as "oddly hypnotizing," and it was selected to screen at many film festivals and art galleries. She has frequently collaborated with writer Lucas Leyva, founder of the Borscht Film Festival, on short films such as Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke and Jacuzzi Boys: Glazin, and the two of them were listed together on Filmmaker Magazine's 2012 list of "New Faces of Independent Film". Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke is a modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film La Jetée, starring Luther Campbell. The film is a told entirely through a series of installations created by Mayer, recounting Luke's rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for first amendment