My mother was a computer

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

“Sweet Spot” is that mode of orientation amidst disorientating times. Situated within a domestic space, one begins to see every object, fixture and furniture as an index to a life lost in isolation.

Peering out of a circular aperture, one's gaze is burned with the hot swathes of colour overwhelming our gaze; a moment of opposition, between two screens facing one another, creating a refraction of iridescent colours on the other device’s surface. They do not touch, yet have left their distinct mark.

We still speak, to one another, through our electronic devices, but our reciprocity is only sustained by blank screens.

On a clothing stand hangs skins we have not needed to inhabit for quite some time. Even in their restful state, these skins, envisioned as hands, index moments of contact, in the past or in futurity—just not in the present. Even as they are suspended mid-air, they gravitate towards each other, not just to feel but to caress. The imprint of our touch is a pinch, a brush, a clasp, a rest. Distinct and opaque, as our fingerprints may be, but yearning to meld into translucency. 

Artist Bio:

Kajin Kim is an artist based in Korea. She works with moving images, printed matter and installation to explore the complexities of mediation in the contemporary experience of physical disembodiment. Disparate projections, transparent prints, iridescent surfaces and screens resonate with each other in her installations, creating an environment where images are touched, reflected, and looked through.

Work Description: 

“Sweet Spot” is that mode of orientation amidst disorientating times. Situated within a domestic space, one begins to see every object, fixture and furniture as an index to a life lost in isolation.

Peering out of a circular aperture, one's gaze is burned with the hot swathes of colour overwhelming our gaze; a moment of opposition, between two screens facing one another, creating a refraction of iridescent colours on the other device’s surface. They do not touch, yet have left their distinct mark.

We still speak, to one another, through our electronic devices, but our reciprocity is only sustained by blank screens.

On a clothing stand hangs skins we have not needed to inhabit for quite some time. Even in their restful state, these skins, envisioned as hands, index moments of contact, in the past or in futurity—just not in the present. Even as they are suspended mid-air, they gravitate towards each other, not just to feel but to caress. The imprint of our touch is a pinch, a brush, a clasp, a rest. Distinct and opaque, as our fingerprints may be, but yearning to meld into translucency. 

Artist Bio:

Kajin Kim is an artist based in Korea. She works with moving images, printed matter and installation to explore the complexities of mediation in the contemporary experience of physical disembodiment. Disparate projections, transparent prints, iridescent surfaces and screens resonate with each other in her installations, creating an environment where images are touched, reflected, and looked through.

Work Description: 

“Sweet Spot” is that mode of orientation amidst disorientating times. Situated within a domestic space, one begins to see every object, fixture and furniture as an index to a life lost in isolation.

Peering out of a circular aperture, one's gaze is burned with the hot swathes of colour overwhelming our gaze; a moment of opposition, between two screens facing one another, creating a refraction of iridescent colours on the other device’s surface. They do not touch, yet have left their distinct mark.

We still speak, to one another, through our electronic devices, but our reciprocity is only sustained by blank screens.

On a clothing stand hangs skins we have not needed to inhabit for quite some time. Even in their restful state, these skins, envisioned as hands, index moments of contact, in the past or in futurity—just not in the present. Even as they are suspended mid-air, they gravitate towards each other, not just to feel but to caress. The imprint of our touch is a pinch, a brush, a clasp, a rest. Distinct and opaque, as our fingerprints may be, but yearning to meld into translucency. 

Artist Bio:

Kajin Kim is an artist based in Korea. She works with moving images, printed matter and installation to explore the complexities of mediation in the contemporary experience of physical disembodiment. Disparate projections, transparent prints, iridescent surfaces and screens resonate with each other in her installations, creating an environment where images are touched, reflected, and looked through.

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Work Description: 

“Transient Home” is an experimental documentary that holds space for the itinerant migrant. Constructing social architecture through voice interviews and volumetric 3D capture, each individual’s story appears to be rendered as a data point that comprises homes that cannot be fully inhabited. Every data point is but a sliver of a larger story, but only intersects with other individuals to give form to permanent loss. Although the complete picture of an immutable home is never constructed, the fidelity of these slivers of stories allows it to be reconstituted over and over again, a material pliable to recall sentimental objects that provide some comfort amidst placelessness. 

Artist Bio:

Jiwon Ham is a new media artist from South Korea, living and working in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA, USA. She presents her ideas, observations, and questions as light projections. Ham explores social psychology in contemporary society and capitalist consumer systems. Home, public space, and the metropolis are sites of her inquiry, observation, and research. Her recent practice strives to shed light on the implicit biases, ethical boundaries, and spatial structures in cities. Ham holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently is a Fulbright Scholar in Film & Digital Media (2018-21). Her work has been presented at public venues, national and international institutions and film/video festivals.

Work Description: 

“Closed Circuit”, a machinima 3D animation, traverses the ruins of an abandoned prison from the perspective of a surveillance camera. If a prison has no prisoners, is Big Brother still watching?

Artist Bio:

KyungMook Kim is a filmmaker based in Seoul. His works have been selected for and received awards in numerous international film festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the BFI London Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

“experiments in free-drumming I” is an exploration of sonic and visual experiments on consciousness, emotions, and muscle memory. The work consists of a sound performance and 3D visualization of physical acts. During the performance, the artist wears a motion capture suit embedded with wireless sensors tracking the performer’s body motions. As a meeting place between the organic and the mechanical, each motion data collected by the machine creates illogical, unpredictable, and evocative graphic and sonic effects. Through the use of technical innovations in live performance, the work examines the ways in which human-driven technologies expand the expressive possibilities of emotional intensity conveyed by a body. The artist’s complex layering of music, sound, video, and performance invites audiences to consider both a technology and body as a mediator of emotional expression.


Artist Bio:

Sal Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago who engages with computation, sound, performance, and new media. He generates work that integrates motion-capture technology into live performances that allows him to experiment and play with visuals and sounds that are generated by the body in real-time, creating an exchange that further bridges the physical and virtual realms.  Sal spent his early undergraduate years involved in competitive percussion ensembles in circuits such as Winter Guard International and Drum Corps International. He has exhibited live performances at Ars Electronica, Mana Contemporary, High Concept Labs, NoNation Art Lab, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown work as part of a United Nations conference in NYC, and also has participated virtually in collaboration with artists from the UK and Brazil, producing work that has reached international audiences. Sal has recently earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies.

Work Description: 

“experiments in free-drumming I” is an exploration of sonic and visual experiments on consciousness, emotions, and muscle memory. The work consists of a sound performance and 3D visualization of physical acts. During the performance, the artist wears a motion capture suit embedded with wireless sensors tracking the performer’s body motions. As a meeting place between the organic and the mechanical, each motion data collected by the machine creates illogical, unpredictable, and evocative graphic and sonic effects. Through the use of technical innovations in live performance, the work examines the ways in which human-driven technologies expand the expressive possibilities of emotional intensity conveyed by a body. The artist’s complex layering of music, sound, video, and performance invites audiences to consider both a technology and body as a mediator of emotional expression.


Artist Bio:

Sal Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago who engages with computation, sound, performance, and new media. He generates work that integrates motion-capture technology into live performances that allows him to experiment and play with visuals and sounds that are generated by the body in real-time, creating an exchange that further bridges the physical and virtual realms.  Sal spent his early undergraduate years involved in competitive percussion ensembles in circuits such as Winter Guard International and Drum Corps International. He has exhibited live performances at Ars Electronica, Mana Contemporary, High Concept Labs, NoNation Art Lab, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown work as part of a United Nations conference in NYC, and also has participated virtually in collaboration with artists from the UK and Brazil, producing work that has reached international audiences. Sal has recently earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies.

Work Description: 

“experiments in free-drumming I” is an exploration of sonic and visual experiments on consciousness, emotions, and muscle memory. The work consists of a sound performance and 3D visualization of physical acts. During the performance, the artist wears a motion capture suit embedded with wireless sensors tracking the performer’s body motions. As a meeting place between the organic and the mechanical, each motion data collected by the machine creates illogical, unpredictable, and evocative graphic and sonic effects. Through the use of technical innovations in live performance, the work examines the ways in which human-driven technologies expand the expressive possibilities of emotional intensity conveyed by a body. The artist’s complex layering of music, sound, video, and performance invites audiences to consider both a technology and body as a mediator of emotional expression.


Artist Bio:

Sal Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago who engages with computation, sound, performance, and new media. He generates work that integrates motion-capture technology into live performances that allows him to experiment and play with visuals and sounds that are generated by the body in real-time, creating an exchange that further bridges the physical and virtual realms.  Sal spent his early undergraduate years involved in competitive percussion ensembles in circuits such as Winter Guard International and Drum Corps International. He has exhibited live performances at Ars Electronica, Mana Contemporary, High Concept Labs, NoNation Art Lab, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown work as part of a United Nations conference in NYC, and also has participated virtually in collaboration with artists from the UK and Brazil, producing work that has reached international audiences. Sal has recently earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies.

Work Description: 

“experiments in free-drumming I” is an exploration of sonic and visual experiments on consciousness, emotions, and muscle memory. The work consists of a sound performance and 3D visualization of physical acts. During the performance, the artist wears a motion capture suit embedded with wireless sensors tracking the performer’s body motions. As a meeting place between the organic and the mechanical, each motion data collected by the machine creates illogical, unpredictable, and evocative graphic and sonic effects. Through the use of technical innovations in live performance, the work examines the ways in which human-driven technologies expand the expressive possibilities of emotional intensity conveyed by a body. The artist’s complex layering of music, sound, video, and performance invites audiences to consider both a technology and body as a mediator of emotional expression.


Artist Bio:

Sal Moreno is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago who engages with computation, sound, performance, and new media. He generates work that integrates motion-capture technology into live performances that allows him to experiment and play with visuals and sounds that are generated by the body in real-time, creating an exchange that further bridges the physical and virtual realms.  Sal spent his early undergraduate years involved in competitive percussion ensembles in circuits such as Winter Guard International and Drum Corps International. He has exhibited live performances at Ars Electronica, Mana Contemporary, High Concept Labs, NoNation Art Lab, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has shown work as part of a United Nations conference in NYC, and also has participated virtually in collaboration with artists from the UK and Brazil, producing work that has reached international audiences. Sal has recently earned his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Art and Technology Studies.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

“True Story” depicts paranoid feelings about the disruption of truth and tackles the hidden operations of power and suspicion. In the artwork, a game reviewer “Pickle Juice” is presented as an investigative reporter, who walks through a video game called “True Story” on his YouTube channel. In the game, players are invited to solve a mystery of uncle Jimmy’s recent activities. They investigate his house and uncover hidden webs of truths based on the information they cull in the game including scrapped newspapers, photos, maps, squirrel killers, and Jimmy’s notes. Horror and fear associated with the purposeful arrangement of eerie scenery and the experience of listening to Pickle Juice’s frightened narration reveal how the emotions of distress and disquiet dismantle the binaries between conspiracy and reality, especially when the grounds of “the fact” are abstract and obscure. The work suggests that paranoia provides a central and inescapable way of seeing and knowing the world.
 
Artist Bio:

Songan Kyung is a new media artist based in Seoul and Providence. Her work has been presented in Korea and U.S., including Whitenoise Gallery; DØULL HOUSE, Boston CyberArts; Wetwired in the Meatspace, Sol Kolffer Gallery; Objects are closer than they appear. Pursuing her Digital Media MFA degree in Rhode Island School of Design, she explored the ecology of dangerous digital artifacts moving from data infrastructure into visible and physical forms of hate and harm. Her art practice is to unfold the surface of the production and distribution of digital artifacts and track dark narratives that lie beneath them. 

Work Description:

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:
n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

n00n (Alessia Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan) generates uncanny topographies to reveal the process of mourning. “Resurrection Reversed” is a 13-minute video work exploring the mutability between the present and memory. Rendered with a sense of heightened sharpness or optical blur, each sequence builds symbolism and metaphor from mundane objects and spaces. Waterscapes, shells, a chess board, clothesline, loom, incense, and altar draw origin from Chinese ornamentalism and Romanian folklore. As a recurring motif in the work, the shift through elemental forces conveys plurality and vulnerability within the relationship between emotion and cognition. 

Artist Bio:

n00n is a digital art collective by artists Alessia Lorea Arregui and Gloria Fan Duan. They present immersive digital landscapes collaged with socio-aesthetic symbols and forms that stem from personal and collective histories. In these post-biological futures, fragments of tangible processes such as weaving, glassblowing, papermaking, moldmaking and film, survive afloat in a rendered hyperreality. Within their cryptic narratives that liken translated language to broken code, n00n draws from their familial lineage of emigres experiences with censorship.

Work Description: 

“Over the phone” tracks a constellation of relationships mediated through mobile phones. Abstracted figures linger and grasp onto their glossy iPhones, their world illuminated by these alluring screens. We oscillate between waiting and wanting, composing and backspacing, tethered to the pregnant pauses before “delivered” and “read”. Words don't seem to matter, but our postures by our phones do, our symbiotic relationship with our devices preceding the connections we make with them. Is there communication, or just absorption into the input of each phone? We are alone, together, away from shore even though a homing beacon calls to us from a distance.

Artist Bio:

My environment has functioned as my shelter and vehicle through life. Now, as a growing artist I view it as a citadel composed of my own thoughts. Thus making me a prisoner of my own thoughts, and the art I make represents my numerous attempts at escape.

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio

Work Description: 

“Hundred Stories” is an ongoing series of virtual records of outdated information on the Internet. The work consists of several animated tombstones based on the usernames and account information voluntarily submitted by online users whose data is either deleted by themselves or banned by service providers. The artist uses blockchain—the underlying computational system for forms of cryptocurrency, that is often seen as an anti-authoritarian technology—to turn the account information including the creation date and username into a scattered pattern of animated glitches. Referencing the death ceremony, each tombstone with glitches recognizes and preserves individual’s discarded digital footprint online and gives it form. The work aims to decentralize the power of big tech companies, who control and manipulate user data once it is deleted, while offering the promise of self-sovereignty. Hundred Stories questions who exercises power over digital assets and on what terms.
 
Artist Bio:

朱祺皓 ZHU Kio is a Chinese artist currently based in Chicago. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s practice often tells stories, mostly real life stories concerning China's major social and political events, historical and ongoing. 朱祺皓 (ZHU Kio)’s works has been included in Ars Electronica’s online exhibition, reported by Oregon Arts Watch, and exhibited at Chicago local galleries.

Link to HundredStories: 
https://www.hundredstories.net/
https://zuukio.wixsite.com/zuukio