Through 3D-rendered black and white images, Moni Omubor creates a fictional museum where Yoruba artifacts exist beyond colonial possession. This artist project, titled “The Backroom” employs speculative fiction and Afro-Surrealism to interrogate Western museum practices and imagine new possibilities.
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Each screenshot captures a moment of pause within the flow of making, a small act of noticing amid continuous motion.
“Holes Holding Whole; IdleTime” is a collaborative project by Ella Dawn McGeough, Erica Stocking, and Amanda Boulos that takes a surreal approach to dreaming and idle time. Moving through a nonlinear, dreamlike spiral of text and image, the work reimagines sleep not as a void, but as a portal to “weird wanderings” and “strange affinities.”
“PPE (rituals) is a browser-based iteration of the speculative virtual world Plants Properties Equipment.”
Use augmented reality to expose clues in the “Celestial Throne” game show.
“In my mind, a potent image of my late father involves a computer. He’s staring at the blue-white glow of his CRT monitor, sitting in his wheelchair, turned away from me. The visual memory eclipses his face. In an uncanny parallel, I look at a screen whenever I want to remind myself of his features. In both circumstances, a digital display facilitates remembering.”