Hanok Re-existencia — What can we learn about the worlds of our ancestors, and the textures and shapes of the lives they lived? Are their hopes and dreams still evident in the clues we find in archives and...
Ancestral Memory Enclaves: Diasporic memory and relational reconstruction — In this workshop series, using “memory objects” – photos from personal archives of one’s family, chosen family, and/or historical records – as windows into ancestral moments, participants employ digital tools to speculatively re-create the space...
Seeing Providence Chinatown — Seeing Providence Chinatown is a project using archival photography and maps to build an immersive digital 3D model of historic downtown Providence Chinatown. The process of reconstructing the neighborhood’s building exteriors and streets will weave...
Taller Leñateros Zine — Taller Leñateros is a collective publishing house operated by contemporary Maya artists in Chiapas, Mexico. With great love and gratitude for this work to preserve their ancestral knowledge, we have made a zine to celebrate...
Box microscopes — Imagining possible pasts is as important as possible futures. It requires rethinking how the world looks, feels, and with whom it is in conversation. As part of my series on Instruments for Multiple Worlds and...
Preciousness and Power — A video essay incorporating microscopic footage of a 皮蛋 (pine-patterned egg) being opened, addressing such topics as anti-assimilation in visual media and the scientific gaze, intimacy and intangible ideas of memory and nostalgia, culminating in...
Instruments for multiple worlds — In early 2020, I’ve begun a collection of projects which prototype culturally situated knowledge production in a world where dominant culture collapses all meanings into one lineage (see Anti-Assimilation, esp. Sadie Prego). Each instrument explores...
Microscopic Cyanotypes — As I’ve been making and using DIY microscopes for some years, I was curious to try taking an analog photograph of a microscopic sample. I have been testing a way to produce a cyanotype directly...
WebJack audio sensor communication — WebJack is a way of connecting a web page to a sensor or devices using a 1970s-era audio modem protocol to enable two-way communication. It sends a series of audio tones back and forth between...
Papercraft spectrometer — The Papercraft Spectrometer is a DIY kit which shifts the problem space of spectrometry into the realm of papercraft, changing both the circle of possible contributors to this technology and the meaning and purpose of...
Infragram cameras — Infragram is a DIY project to modify digital cameras to take infrared photos, in order to understand plant health. Using https://infragram.org, photos taken with an Infragram camera can be processed to highlight photosynthetic productivity. I...