Multimedia Projects
WAAPS: We Are All Pop Stars
With the recent rise of Western music companies incorporating elements of the K-pop phenomenon into their projects, WAAPS strikes the iron while it is hot. Through the form of an essential Korean Pop product, an album, WAAPS plays with, queers, and diversifies the form of the Western K-Pop album; before unaware audiences start to form preconceived notions around them. Simultaneously, We Are All Pop Stars uplifts six local queer artists. Framing these artists through the K-pop cultural products of photocards, photo books, and posters proves they deserve to be celebrated as much as any K-pop idol or Western pop icon.
Photobook - 66 pages of orginal photos & interviews
Poster
- Poster for each member
Photocard - Interview selfies versions & unreleased photo versions
CD - Member interview compilations
Webcam Art
Overstimulated
Webcam filter coded to overstimulate the brain—a horizontal slit-scan and flashing. Colorful radial slit scan captures the subject as the song Overstimulated by Okay Kaya plays.
Blood on Page
Using computer vision motion detection, Darcy created a webcam filter displaying pixels in motion in various shades of red. Pixels that are not in motion are displayed as white. The screen imitates the look of blood flowing on a piece of paper. She coded a recording function for cohesive documentation.
Flower Face
Three-dimensional and sequence inspired by the poem The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur and honoring Darcy’s hometown. The model shows an installation near a local elementary school with images of community members on the faces of flowers. As people walk by, they see themselves reflected in the flowers, resiliently growing out of the concrete with their community.