*”Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” said the Queen*
Presentation: Online MAB Meetup | Futures Implied: new horizons in Media Architecture #1
On 11th November 2020, I along with 9 other early career researchers participated in the online meetup as part of the pre-event to the MAB20 conference which will take place virtually from JUNE 28TH · JULY 2ND 2021. We were each tasked with 3 minutes to share multiple...
The Closet: Visual Poetry
“The Closet” is a 5-minute performance piece on the lived experiences of queer and allied BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour). It explores the nuances of being in the closet and/or marginalized as a person of colour and in multiple BIPOC communities across...
Chatty Bench Project Exhibition
With the aim of combatting loneliness and social isolation, the Chatty Bench Project is a community collaboration between KGUV PBC, Communify, Village Church & QUT Design Lab. The project brings together local stories of Kelvin Grove Urban Village residents with...
F.E.A.S.T 2020: a more than human world
Hira Sheikh and I were one of four finalists for F.E.A.S.T 2020: a more than human world, 4th October 2020, VisArts, Maryland, USA. F.E.A.S.T stands for Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics. It was a pleasure to be a part of this. We acknowledge the land of...
Sami: Augmented reality + Social Justice
Hira Sheikh and I collaborated on a WebAR piece as part of the AR workshop with Jonas Johansson | Aavistus Festival 2020 from 28 Sept –2 Oct 2020. In Helsingin kaupunginmuseo/Helsinki City Museum, you find a virtual protest in solidarity with the #FreeTheKP120...
Chatty Bench Project
It was such a pleasure to speak with ElsaMarie D'Silva (Safecity) and Prathima Manohar (Urban Vision) on my PhD research, the “Chatty Bench Project”, and everything that has led to it. Such a fun little conversation! https://youtu.be/KxznGpR2eac QUT eprints | QUT...
REFRACTus
REFRACTus is a creative reflection of human-fish intra-actions where decolonial and feminist poetics are utilised to explore the violence caused by capitalism, colonialism, and other White anthropogenic ways of engaging with the deep-water. The narrative and...
MASK /ear(t)h /RAID
MASK /ear(t)h /RAID is a geolocative storytelling piece created in collaboration with Ariadne Pediotaki, Eman Abdou, Raffaella Pagogna and Yichao Zha. It was conceptualised during the Locative Media Summer School, 2nd- 16th July 2020. Taking our positionality of...
sur_faces
This is an autoethnographic visual essay in collaboration with Hira Sheikh. It is currently under review for the Feral Feminisms (an open access feminist journal). Humans are a destructive force on this planet: exclusive, authoritarian, and up to man’s whimsy....
How to say Goodbye in a Pandemic
"How to say Goodbye in a Pandemic" explores my growing interest in interactive fiction and storytelling. This piece is currently under review by Feral Feminisms- the open access feminist journal. How does one hack the Anthropocene? Nature, masked as COVID-19 virus,...
AzaadiBot
The Azaadi Bot was created using Tracery. This is a screaming voice into the void against the injustice of NRC-CAA and in solidarity with anti-capitalist, anti-racism and anti-patriarchy movements. The bot documents global protest poetry and chants.
Queer Displacement
Queer Displacement is a video artwork by Rasel Ahmed and Kavita Gonsalves. It is a provocation on the ethics of trauma storytelling based on the exodus of the queer community within and outside of Bangladesh. The 2016 murders of queer activists Xulhaz Mannan, the...