ROBOTA (44°34'39.5"N 72°14'45.2"W)

performance/single-channel video/sound design, 2022

In a post-human world, a cyborgian entity materializes and experiences an enchanted pond for the first time.

The performance stems from an ecofeminist perspective and references the origin of the word “robota” (derived from “drudgery” and “forced labor”) as well as “robot” (from Karel Čapek’s Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, Rossum's Universal Robots).

Robota’s cyborgian entity continues its habitual tasks but senses possible liberation in the multisensory, multispecies world in and around the pond.

Europa Film Festival 2024, Barcelona, Spain; BIDEODROMO Experimental Film Festival 2023, Bilbao, Italy, 2023; the Stockholm Film Festival, 2023; the Future Vision Festival, Tokyo and Amsterdam, 2022

MAMA, SOIL, AND SPIRIT

installation, 2021

MAMA, SOIL, AND SPIRIT expresses the poetry of relationality as I collaborate on an interactive artwork with the soil. Sensors read the soil’s humidity and temperature, and the value inputs shape the dynamics of three reactive animations: Bathing Mamas, Tunnel Mamas, and Deep Time. Within the animations is documentation captured with borescope cameras and a Butoh performance. I evoke animistic mentalities, the dynamism of the microbiome, and technology's relationship to its maternal materials. The screens rest in holes, ontological parasites defined by soil. They are spirit portals revealing the continuum and unity of the above ground and the underground.

HOLE SOCIETY

art intervention, 2021

HOLE SOCIETY is an art intervention and a video series accompanied by instructions inspired by Fluxus scores. The series forms an abstract narrative of birth-death-regeneration and reveals a web of bureaucratic structures, cultural complexities, and economies that surround soil exploitation.

HOLE SOCIETY is interested in infrastructure where it intersects with soil and relies on holes. It reveals terra firma as a dynamic and living thing and part of a continuum with the life above-ground.

CYBORGIAN ROCK (A PROTO-BOT)

custom chatbot/web-based interactive experience, 2021

The Cyborgian Rock (CR) is a fictional entity experienced via a chatbot and designed to stimulate animistic imagination in users. This project explores the untapped potentialities of social presence, which can be defined as the sense of being with another. The CR experience is the opposite of our encounters with consumer techno-products. It does not serve a utilitarian purpose or provide consumerist pleasures. Instead, it steers one towards reflections on nature, ancient traditions, and traditional modes of understanding as they relate to the modern experience. The code and algorithms are “handwritten” thus the CR is a proto-bot, not an AI-bot.

Featured on the Coding Train live stream.