User:ZUZU/Final presentation

Final presentation

Special Issues

SI22

In Radio Worm: Protocols for an Active Archive, I developed this project in a group collaboration. For the final post-apocalyptic theme, we imagined the audience as survivors of the apocalypse. Through the Rain Receiver, we analyzed the language of nature by capturing the frequency of rain to generate sounds. When survivors touch the Rain Receiver, they become part of an unfolding narrative. This intimate gesture, akin to the act of giving, triggers a cascade of experiences—rain sounds, fragments of stories, and stream-of-consciousness memories collected from the community.

The concept of a gift economy(Kimmerer, 2022) became central to our exploration. For example, while a person can buy a wool scarf in a store, receiving a scarf hand-knitted by someone close carries a different emotional weight. Both serve the same physical function of keeping someone warm, but the emotional connection to a gifted item is far deeper. This realization resonated with my preference for the metaphor of a post-apocalypse picnic box. In a gift economy, community networks are built not on material wealth, but on connections that avoid disrupting the natural flow of resources for artificial scarcity.

SI23

SI24

reading/writing

thesis

final publication and grad show

Soft mini pieces of the nearby is a series of gentle responses to the overlooked rhythms of everyday life. These works gather fragments too small to be archived—moments too intimate yet easily ignored. They return our attention to the faint movements and soft traces of daily existence: clothes hanging out to dry, benches, and routes traversed day after day.

Through inviting participants to join in collective engagement with what is near, these pieces investigate "nearby" as a form of resistance and creation within an atomized society. They approach it through everyday micro-practices—as a way of noticing, of staying with, of encountering by chance—always relational, emotional, and in motion.