utopia literary journal, vol. 2: dream architecture
Volume 2 of Utopia focuses on buildings that were either unbuilt, or at risk of being unbuilt. Lissitzky's Wolkenbügel project, the Paper Architecture movement, and the Melnikov House are discussed in conjunction with the development of the videogame series Pathologic, as well as the in-game architecture of the Oneirotects.
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butchverse vol. 1
For every day there aren't enough butch characters I take a male one and make them a dyke. About 100 pages of short essays, art, and mini-comics about alternate masculinities, American comics, queer theory, and Western fandom through the lense of Daredevil & The Punisher.
Includes a reading guide for Daredevil and The Punisher comics. Is friendly to those unfamiliar with Marvel characters or gender theory.
interviews with people online
The persona that takes space on the internet, that is acted out and translated through text and image and emoji and reshares, is entirely decided and curated by a living person who may live an entirely different type of life in the flesh. It is long form performance, collaboration, lie, and honesty beyond what one might ever be able to live outside the screen. I explore that constructed role-identity through interview with people who see a dividing line between their habitus on the internet, and off it.
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incomplete image
A zine that plays with cutouts and hidden figures.
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scrollform_01
In the digital age, everyone is a User. Whether we like it or not, we have collectively placed our bets in the perpetuity of the internet as we know it, even as it rots beneath our feet. We are overwhelmed with everything we ever could have wanted, from information, to entertainment, to each other's time and energy. We record our identities anywhere we can, and that in turn shapes how we have committed to presenting ourselves. Scrollform is an exploration of the tension between off and online living.
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death of farhad
This project looks at the character Farhad from Persian literature.
Specifically, it looks at how his death and narrative significance has evolved as the story that he is a part of has been adapted to different cultures, time periods, and mediums.
how long can you milk a dead horse? (or, postproduction for the fan)
Fandom, in a nutshell, is an extended collective subculture of obsessive post-production, and a show doesn't really end until the last fanfiction is written about it. In a culture that worships the sword of Intellectual Property and Copyright, where stories end up considered a product before anything else, what are the implications of investing one's self in being responsible for keeping said product alive?
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utopian scrapbook 2
A photocopier zine that explores love, memory, ephemerality, and the futility of language.
Part of a larger series that looks at those themes with different motifs in each installation.
butchverse vol. 2: the(y/he) doujinshi
A companion and follow-up to the Butchverse Vol. 1 collection, this zine continues examining alternate masculinites through Western and transgender reinterpretations of Doujinshi culture.
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utopia literary journal, vol. 1: artists, architects, & dreamers
As a whole, this literary journal connects topics from the videogame Pathologic with relevant topics in art and history.
Volume 1 brings together works from fans and connects them with art and writing from outside of Pathologic, with a focus on exploring the narrative significance of the characters Andrey Stamatin, Peter Stamatin, and Daniil Dankovsky.
All Cameras Are Bastards (in a surveillance state)
"If the panopticon effect is when you don't know if you are being watched or not, and so you behave as if you are, then the inverse panopticon effect is when you know you are being watched but act as if you aren't. This is today's surveillance culture: exhibitionism in bad faith."- Benjamin H. Bratton
Types of cameras are ranked on their cop-titude.
the experience of human or divine love seems inevitably grounded in pain
A Pathologic fancomic: "Symbols of achievement take on an organic cast; the violence of disease and broken glass; messy desperation, and then decay…. Intense, layered, and in keeping with the way canon operates so heavily through metaphor and implication."
Images and text are presented side by side in staccato beats. Voices cannot be linked to speakers, hands cannot be linked to bodies, and accidents cannot be linked to actions. The only stable feature is the three by three grid that everything else is built on.
cultural flexchange 1
Cultural exchange of alternate masculinities, as told through vignettes of the hyper.
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