inscription
Every individual, every culture leaves something behind: a mark, an inscription, a trace - or even the absence of one. Some endure for millennia, carved into stone or pressed into paper; others flicker briefly across screens, disappear into server logs, or persist only as faint gestures recorded in memory. This assemblage explores media archaeology through acts of inscription, tracing continuities between ancient and contemporary forms of marking, remembering, communicating, and forgetting. Working across digital media, sculpture, video, code, and found materials, the works consider inscription not simply as writing, but as evidence of attention, devotion, grief, resistance, and presence.
Rather than treating technologies as neutral tools, these works approach media as cultural artifacts situated within much longer histories of human expression. Marginalia, waveforms, petroglyphs, server logs, gilded computers, biometric traces, and disappearing text become part of the same conversation, asking how we leave ourselves behind and what survives those acts of inscription. Together, the works invite viewers to consider not only the marks we inherit, but also the ones we continue to make - and the worlds they quietly construct.
ember/ash: mouseX, mouseY
this mattered
i dance to tv snow
everything and nothing sacred
networked bodies
404: say their names
everybody is a celebrity
more fire than stone