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(Image credit: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
Curiosities from the Anthropocene began as a series of colored pencil drawings of "curiosities". I was thinking about the 18th Century phenomenon of the "cabinet of curiosities". Where the privileged colonizer would bring back souvenirs of the Other. Here is a look at curious souvenirs that have come back… ⊕
Am I Human? is a post-human exploration of data, artificial intelligence, and surveillance using video and sound. The glitch on screen disrupts communication and represents my questioning about the difficulty in being human in normative cultural standards.
"antimatter: that which is unseen yet powerfully present.” - Lee pui ming A meditative and moving portrait of a lake in summer, over time, in its various moods. In the heat of this summer, I live all summers...
2022, 16:10 minutes, colour
tapecode 2157.02
Autobiology responds to cultural paradigms surrounding illness and identity from the vantage point of someone with a chronic immune disorder. Ross-Millard performs the alphabet in motion, using the by-product as a customised font with which to write an auto-theoretical essay on her experience with medical diagnosis. This piece… ⊕
2022, 03:48 minutes, Colour
tapecode 2150.01
Balustrade (2022) is a myth-creation investigation of the fracturing of a friendship.