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Crowded Dreams | Ai-Chun Huang

Crowded Dreams (2021) uses the same animation style as Huang’s The Manipulation of Life, and continues her exploration of desire, but this time through...

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Occupation | Coalfather Industries

“Occupation” (2023) is a video performance piece that examines the ideas surrounding work, addressing both the work climate of the post-pandemic era and injurious...

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Patient Object | Terry Cole

Terry Cole’s “Patient Object” (2022) aims to explore the digitization of memory. Filmed entirely on a flip phone, the piece embraces its “compressionist” and...

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Coalfather | Q+A

Digital America interviewed Coalfather in November 2023 about their piece Occupation (2023). ::: Digital America: In “Occupation” (2023) two masked and uniformed adults go...

./configure | Bryan Valdes

“./configure” (2023) is a series of crude and binary video collages that are meant to be a digital mirror to the transient nature of...

Harm | Dalena Tran

Harm (2022) directed by artist Dalena Tran, with character animation by Katrina Sung and music by Beacon (Thomas Mullarney and Jacob Gossett), focuses on...

Ciarán Short | Q+ A

Digital America interviewed Ciarán Short in November 2022 about his piece American Re-Education (2022). ::: Digital America: You created the video piece iHope (2021) in...

Response to FEMME | Qing Shen

Inspired by Crystal Beiresdorfer’s FEMME: A Manifesto, artist Qing Shen explored a response through the piece Pink Tree (2022). Shen was deeply influenced by...

American Re-Education | Ciarán Short

Ciarán Short’s, American Re-Education (2022) video piece explores the representation of Blackness across popular media. The featured images are “digitally altered using glitch aesthetics...

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Virtual Worker Diaries | Forest Kelley

Virtual Worker Diaries (2022) targets the rise of virtual labor markets and crowdsourcing by illuminating the “layers of obfuscation” inherent to the anonymous exchanges....