Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me Dian Joy Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:03:24 +0000 https://dianjoy.me en Selected Projects https://dianjoy.me/Selected-Projects Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:11 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/Selected-Projects Alexandria’s Genesis (2024) MothPit (2022) LAMP&nbsp;(2022) The Hoping Mechanism (2021)&nbsp; No Gods in the Inbetween (2020) Topia [as BLUE] (2019) Contact https://dianjoy.me/Contact Fri, 05 May 2023 14:07:22 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/Contact info [dot] dianjoy [at] gmail [dot] com+44 [0] 77 563 528 33Instagram︎︎︎ CV https://dianjoy.me/CV Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:11 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/CV Lives and works in London, England. Dian Joy is a British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in London. Working across video, installation, and extended reality, Joy’s practice explores the entanglement of biological and technological systems through a speculative, research-driven approach. Their work critically engages with the ever-evolving terrain of selfhood in the digital era, frequently investigating how the machinic and the embodied intersect within contemporary culture. Bridging theory and praxis, at the core of Joy’s inquiry is an exploration of desire as a subjectivity-shaping force in a world increasingly governed by algorithmically charged media. Through this lens, Joy examines the affective and material dimensions of otherness and power. Never indebted to a darkening horizon, their installations and moving image works cultivate spaces for collective reflection, asking how we indeed “make sense” amid the ideological forces that shape contemporary life. Dian holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, where they were awarded a UAL Academic Scholarship. Their work has been recognised through awards and commissions, such as the 2024 Hotel Generation Prize from Arebyte Gallery, the Moon Cinema filmmakers bursary from Tour de Moon, and a prototype AR producer commission for the nationwide immersive programme StoryTrails. In 2025, Dian was selected for the CPH:DOX Delegation through the BFI Doc Society Fund and undertook a residency with ECDC—their second, following a residency with York Mediale’s Immersive Assembly programme in 2023. Dian’s work has been presented at Tate Britain Lates, the British Film Institute, Shijiazhuang Art Museum (CN), Galleri Q (DK), Juliette Jongma Gallery (NL), HOTEL AMAZONAS (IT), among others. Solo Presentations Past 2024/5 | Alexandria’s Genesis | Arebyte | London, UK. Group PresentationsCurrent 2026 | Untitled Mother Daughter Project, Character Study I | b-sides | Calcio | London, UK.Past 2024 | Topia | MOLT x TON 1 | ATELIER GARDENS | Berlin, DE.&nbsp; 2023 | Two Front Encounter | All watched over by machines of tight embrace | Lewisham Arthouse | London, UK. 2022 | LAMP | Shijiazhuang Youth Biennale | Shijiazhuang; Zhengzhou; Suzhou, CN. 2022 | MothPit (Permutation II)| Shijiazhuang Youth Biennale | Shijiazhuang; Zhengzhou; Suzhou, CN. 2022 | my house is on fire | Cluster Contemporary | OXO Bargehouse | London, UK. 2022 | Are you dreaming of sleep, little machine? | Late At Tate Britain: Art Now, Shawanda Corbett | Tate Britain | London, UK. 2022 | MothPit (Permutation I) | Tour De Moon | Southampton; Newcastle; Leicester, UK. 2022 | LAMP | Boing | Central Saint Martins | London, UK. 2022 | Voyageur [w Sarah Lou Maarek] | Editions, Multiples, Identicals | Lethaby Gallery | London, UK. 2022 | A glance from the corner (I) | MERCH | Lethaby Gallery | London, UK. 2020 | No Gods in the Inbetween | LUDICITY | Galleri Q | Copenhagen, DK. 2019 | Topia | LEAVING LIVING DAKOTA x BLUE | Decoratelier | Brussels, BE. 2019 | Catastrophe | Spatial Construction &amp; Performance | Newington Gallery | London, UK. 2018 | Mediations on Pain | Spring Performance Festival | Juliette Jongma Gallery | Amsterdam, NL. Screenings Past2025 | TOTALLY COOKED | « Mirages » | PAF Olomouc festival | Olomouc, CZ. 2025 | TOTALLY COOKED&nbsp;| Silver Lynx - Best Experimental Short [Nominated] | NDNF - FEST | Espinho, NL. 2024 | LAMP | MOMO Festival | Rotterdam, NL. 2023 | LAMP | SWIFF | Light Film Fest | Digital; USA. 2023 | LAMP | Waiting Room | Yard Theatre | London, UK. 2023 | LAMP | London Short Film Festival | British Film Institute | London, UK. 2022 | LAMP | Lift Off First Time Filmmaker Sessions | Online. 2022 | LAMP | Black Cat Film Festival | London, UK. 2022 | LAMP | NEOS Fest | TBD | Puebla, MX. 2022 | LAMP | Spake 666 | Vogue Fabrics Dalston | London, UK. 2022 | LAMP | Spake Easy | Boogaloo | London, UK. 2022 | LAMP | Tour De Moon | Leicester; Newcastle; Southampton; London; Crawley; Plymouth; Barrow-in-Furness; Blackburn; Huddersfield; Grimsby; Wolverhampton; Bletchley, UK. Performances / Dialogues / Interventions Past2025 | Long live the new flesh (or whatever) | Residency Sharing | Somerset House | London, UK. 2025 | Long live the new flesh (or whatever) | Bit Rot | Copeland Gallery | London, UK. 2025 | Animating Digital Identities | Greenwhich University | London, UK. 2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis by Dian Joy: Myths and Mimetics | Reforum | Arebyte | London, UK. 2024 | Mediale Immersive Assembly 4 Launch | Oxford University, UK. 2023 | Mediale Immersive Assembly 3 Showcase | Immersive Arts Salon | Sage | Gateshead, UK . 2023 | Virtual as Vilnius: Imaginaries and Technologies Shaping the City | London Festival of Architecture | Bartlett School of Architecture | London, UK . 2022 | Pleasure Grounding For Topsy Turvy Times | 21 Days of Pleasure | The Skinship | Digital. 2021 | The Hoping Mechanism | Transference.tv | Digital. 2019 | Ritual of Kore | Fool Moon | HOTEL AMAZONAS | South Tyrol, IT. 2019 | Fanfare /b/channel w/ NXS [3/3]: Future Ruins | Fanfare | Amsterdam, NL. 2019 | Collectives and Chosen Family&nbsp; | The Word Radio | Brussels, BE. 2019 | BLA-BLA-BLASPHEMY Writers Retreat | BLUE | Galway, IR. 2019 | Digital -topias | LEAVING LIVING DAKOTA x BLUE | Decoratelier | Brussels, BE. 2017 | We Giants | Matrix Botanica | Gare du Noord | Amsterdam, NL. Education 2020/22 &nbsp; Central Saint Martins Master of Fine Arts 2018/20&nbsp; &nbsp;Art Academy of London 2015/18 &nbsp; University of Amsterdam Bachelor of Arts Commissions / Residencies / Fellowships / Awards / Grants Current 2025-2028 | Studio Residency | Somerset House | London, UK. Past2025 | un/fund prize [Shorlisted] | Amsterdam, NL. 2025 | Artist in Residence | ECDC | London, UK. 2025 | CPH:DOX Delegation | BFI Doc Society Fund | UK. 2024 | Hotel Generation [Winner] | Arebyte | London, UK. 2023 | Artist in Residence | Immersive Assembly Vol. 3 | Mediale | Digital. 2023 | LAMP | Best Documentary [Finalist] | SWIFF | Light Film Fest | Digital; USA. 2022 | ILN Mentorship Programme | ILN&nbsp; | Digital. 2022 | Graduate Award [Shortlisted] | Lewisham Arthouse | London, UK. 2022 | Moon Cinema Bursary | Tour De Moon | Unboxed | UK. 2021 | Being Olive Morris Augmented Reality Experience (pilot storyscaper)| Storytrails | Unboxed | London, UK. 2019 | 1st Place | Pound Art Competition | Bolt and Bee | UK. Press/ Texts / Interviews/Links 2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis by Dian Joy: Myths and Memetics | HOT LIST 07/01/2025 | LA FOMO | Digital. 2024 | In conversation with Dian Joy | FLO London | Digital. 2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis | New Exhibitions | Digital. 2024 | Dian Joy: Alexandria’s Genesis | Art Plugged | Digital. 2024 | Semana 442_1 Alexandria’s Genesis | [ANTI]MATERIA&nbsp;| Digital.2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis by Dian Joy | Art Week | Digital.2024 | What’s On: Alexandria’s Genesis | Royal Docks | Digital. 2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis by Dian Joy | HOT LIST 13/11/2024 | LA FOMO | Digital. 2024 | Dian Joy: ALEXANDRIA'S GENESIS | Kensington and Chelsea Review | Print. 2024 | Alexandria’s Genesis by Dian Joy | Arebyte | Digital. 2023 |&nbsp;all watched over by machines of tight embrace | Design Exchange | Digital. 2019 | Margareth | Lilian Polosek, Daniela Capaldo &amp; Lucilla Patrizi | Film. Alexandria's Genesis https://dianjoy.me/Alexandria-s-Genesis Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:03:24 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/Alexandria-s-Genesis <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f544a000864bad49d5398508698f2edb4b56e7fc26c8ad06133a3864f6a23ad0/006_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f544a000864bad49d5398508698f2edb4b56e7fc26c8ad06133a3864f6a23ad0/006_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> Alexandria’s Genesis, a solo show by British-Nigerian artist Dian Joy, examines how digital folklore shapes self-perception and social ideologies, with a particular focus on the role of the gaze in perpetuating myths about the body.&nbsp; Stemming from a widely circulated fanfiction-cum-copypasta entitled “Purple Eyes and Other Interesting Anomalies”, written in 1998 by Cameron Aubernon, the exhibition delves into the internet myth of Alexandria’s Genesis. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2389439a046bde228187a8cd83461d0a67c8c5e77295f0810bbf99e50f1b37f1/030_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301103" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2389439a046bde228187a8cd83461d0a67c8c5e77295f0810bbf99e50f1b37f1/030_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ec305c3eb3414b97cb59a9dcb02c5c573018ed02b8392ebd4348acf3b0cdb0c/001_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301096" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ec305c3eb3414b97cb59a9dcb02c5c573018ed02b8392ebd4348acf3b0cdb0c/001_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> This viral lore describes an idealised genetic condition, marked by pale skin, purple eyes, extended lifespan, immunity to disease, and freedom from bodily waste, as well as unwanted hair growth. Although rooted in fiction, this myth gained widespread attention online, feeding a niche hysteria amongst those who believed they harboured this rare genetic code, and those who desired to embody its impossible traits.Despite being debunked by medical journals, Alexandria’s Genesis continues to thrive on platforms like TikTok, where it circulates as both an absurd joke and a reminder of our deeper, more unsettling desires. As such, Alexandria’s Genesis has played a significant role in shaping and normalising ideologies that continue to support underlying legacies of racial superiority in the vernacular web. <img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9159092a5d6dec91416a705e932c55bbd5351ef7fcfd92c1e53d8b9daa260fbd/024_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301099" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9159092a5d6dec91416a705e932c55bbd5351ef7fcfd92c1e53d8b9daa260fbd/024_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes filmmaking, animation, and archival research, Dian Joy traces the roots of this myth, utilising post-cinematic forms of affect to explore how new media technologies harness the gaze as a disciplinary force to shape both individual selfhood and collective belief systems. By delving into these structures of seeing and being seen, Alexandria’s Genesis challenges us to question how contemporary communication technologies perpetuate desires for unattainable, often dangerous, and always racialised ideals of the body. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/827ebf652935611da322763288d33ed112f5298f0780cb4a13d62d4e779fdac1/022_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/827ebf652935611da322763288d33ed112f5298f0780cb4a13d62d4e779fdac1/022_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d0fa8f94c91987b82e417c99f1ab37d42aa0973e47dad2c98d2173ad4098b9c/026_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301101" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d0fa8f94c91987b82e417c99f1ab37d42aa0973e47dad2c98d2173ad4098b9c/026_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> Alexandria’s Genesis forms part of arebyte’s artistic focus for 2023/26 themed The Body, The Mind, The Soul, an exploration of the complex nature of humanity in the realm of technological progress. The exhibition is the culmination of hotel generation, an yearly artist development programme mentoring the next generation of UK digital artists and whose 2024 edition was awarded to Dian Joy. <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d5e2d8ead613814a3d9ee0596660d0154bbda97a2bf4c654d7008fa377f3604/029_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" data-mid="224301102" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d5e2d8ead613814a3d9ee0596660d0154bbda97a2bf4c654d7008fa377f3604/029_Alexandrias-Genisis_Dian-Joy_Arebyte-Gallery_2024_Crd-Devika-Bilimoria_LR.jpg" /> Dian Joy, Alexandria's Genesis, 2024. Installation view, arebyte Gallery, London. Image: Devika Bilimoria. LAMP https://dianjoy.me/LAMP Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:12 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/LAMP <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d82aa5142a79d495682bb11a32d88b5eafd17d5feef690e50aea58c94786c386/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_1.png" data-mid="177769749" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d82aa5142a79d495682bb11a32d88b5eafd17d5feef690e50aea58c94786c386/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_1.png" /> On September 9th, 1947, at a quarter to four in the afternoon, a common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) becomes tangled at Relay #70, Panel F of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, where it was being tested at Harvard University. In an event that would become as mis-cited as it is infamous, American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper reaches into the machine to retrieve the insect and tapes it to a page in the official logbook before scribbling beneath it: “first actual case of bug being found”. &nbsp; <img width="2448" height="1378" width_o="2448" height_o="1378" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0d53099131320199392132602ddd3801adf70b6421007678dfb26423f082dab/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_4.png" data-mid="177770660" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0d53099131320199392132602ddd3801adf70b6421007678dfb26423f082dab/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_4.png" /> <img width="2446" height="1368" width_o="2446" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c88c1e8cf8bdeecea238b57837ad9f6ba8281a9e92d84bf7d788af7fe3ba795/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_5.png" data-mid="177770651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c88c1e8cf8bdeecea238b57837ad9f6ba8281a9e92d84bf7d788af7fe3ba795/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_5.png" /> In its fully matured form, the moth sprouts a pair of hardened protein wings and ultraviolet-sensitive eyes that enable it to travel by moonlight in a process called transverse orientation. Now, in a world teeming with 24-hour artificial lighting, the moth must contend with a fatal attraction towards a billion glittering moons. <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d42401ead766f6522778c42f98e6454e323711735717f9b4ff69675815f61ba3/9.png" data-mid="177772184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d42401ead766f6522778c42f98e6454e323711735717f9b4ff69675815f61ba3/9.png" /> But how strange, that the path of an insectand its self-consuming desire to move towards the lightshould cause it to turn a sophisticated apparatus of automated controlupside-down. <img width="450" height="253" width_o="450" height_o="253" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c55960c3070853cf5aee3b119d77b3928042217359083228018ad2be9711e36/15.png" data-mid="177772331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/450/i/0c55960c3070853cf5aee3b119d77b3928042217359083228018ad2be9711e36/15.png" /> <img width="450" height="253" width_o="450" height_o="253" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebc8d30046d4cbbe72b2cbef4940833b983444a8d69f3d4c413901495b39963e/16.png" data-mid="177772336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/450/i/ebc8d30046d4cbbe72b2cbef4940833b983444a8d69f3d4c413901495b39963e/16.png" /> all watched over by machines of tight embrace https://dianjoy.me/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-tight-embrace Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:10:54 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-tight-embrace Exhibition Title all watched over by machines of tight embrace LocationLewisham Arthouse Exhibiting ArtistsArna BethDavid BlandyDian and LucyEce TanInés Miño IzquierdoIssi Nanabeyin&nbsp; Event Programme 7:30 - Screening: Progress vs Regress by melanie bonajo8:30 - Performance: bill daggs9:15 - Mix: Smarterchild10:00 - Performance: AZADI.mp3 In her seminal 1984 essay, ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’, Donna Haraway identifies the fallacy of technology as a neutral tool beholden to human mastery. She states: “we’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections—and it matters which ones get made and unmade” (Haraway, 1985, p.149). With this insight, Haraway frames the nuanced, mutually constitutive relationship human subjects inhabit with the technology that sustains their daily lives. This revelation underscores that any technology materialised from a present sociopolitical context is ultimately steeped in the prejudices that characterise the day. Rather than simply a set of safeguards against impending futures, technological innovation reveals itself as a mirror, reflecting our contemporary context and the systems that uphold it. This exhibition delves into the complex interplay between emerging technologies and human existence. Rather than setting up a bifurcated genealogy of nature vs technology–the roar of technological progress in one corner, and a floundering natural world in the other–the works in this show confront the challenges and opportunities presented by these innovations. They delve into the joys and the perils of technology’s ability to connect our lives across geographies, glimpse into our social systems, rethink the materiality of the world around us, and challenge what we consider to be recognisable life. In doing so, this show aims to spark conversations about our place within an ever evolving landscape. <img width="5976" height="3984" width_o="5976" height_o="3984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/497482d279787ee504b5090596cd4286010a71034a3710d94f9648f6c61a5bfe/gc_dian_lewisham-2.png" data-mid="198686172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/497482d279787ee504b5090596cd4286010a71034a3710d94f9648f6c61a5bfe/gc_dian_lewisham-2.png" /> <img width="4006" height="6009" width_o="4006" height_o="6009" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1315046e57aab2193b35c102df43bb91783c1d7e7d2968ee9e8c5a0e46af63b/gc_dian_lewisham-17.jpg" data-mid="198686183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1315046e57aab2193b35c102df43bb91783c1d7e7d2968ee9e8c5a0e46af63b/gc_dian_lewisham-17.jpg" /><img width="4004" height="6006" width_o="4004" height_o="6006" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd667692bdf1fdbd98d29b32e2b1d68cb805f5f384ecb3dd89d27ef857acca5f/gc_dian_lewisham-13.png" data-mid="198686166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd667692bdf1fdbd98d29b32e2b1d68cb805f5f384ecb3dd89d27ef857acca5f/gc_dian_lewisham-13.png" /> <img width="3911" height="5867" width_o="3911" height_o="5867" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9c883e9cd9554437014993371f73e2caa664fac9b8a99dd1ea04e7aadb70f42/gc_dian_lewisham_opening-52.jpg" data-mid="198686184" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9c883e9cd9554437014993371f73e2caa664fac9b8a99dd1ea04e7aadb70f42/gc_dian_lewisham_opening-52.jpg" />Photos by Gabriel Cautain Moth Pit https://dianjoy.me/Moth-Pit Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:12 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/Moth-Pit <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c88d048763082c4cdebd8068aabf5255e6d58a4d4d822da009fc957099b19b1/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_2.png" data-mid="177767665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c88d048763082c4cdebd8068aabf5255e6d58a4d4d822da009fc957099b19b1/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_2.png" />Though the saying “like a moth to a flame” would lead us to believe that moths primarily navigate by sight, certain species of moth utilise their hearing organs and genitals to engage with and produce ultrasound. Using Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) technology to send radio signals from one location to another location on Earth, Dian Joy collaborated with Tour De Moon musicians and Newcastle University to introduce a colony of Galleria to the reflected static sounds captured from sending music to the surface of the moon. By harvesting the audio signals and offering them up to the moths, they are able to engage with the satellite in new ways, offering us insight into what radical immanence and playful encounters might look like to some of the world's smaller creatures. <img width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4912da95486b174e1ce1999d256a2cb489b824556499bfaa8d890406c2d743e0/TDM-Rushes-socialExport-107.jpeg" data-mid="177769092" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4912da95486b174e1ce1999d256a2cb489b824556499bfaa8d890406c2d743e0/TDM-Rushes-socialExport-107.jpeg" /> The Hoping Mechanism https://dianjoy.me/The-Hoping-Mechanism Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:12 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/The-Hoping-Mechanism <img width="3045" height="1711" width_o="3045" height_o="1711" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26d642156970975102ea1f23c5339dfa4746fa02ee4f5eb53d5db21184786f5c/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.57.14.png" data-mid="177773023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26d642156970975102ea1f23c5339dfa4746fa02ee4f5eb53d5db21184786f5c/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.57.14.png" /> Operating in the shadow of political turmoil and encroaching forms of yet unrealised technological control, the potential for a limitless horizon of selfhood becomes the slippery semiotics of a familiar subject navigating ever expanding territory… Utilising the mode of live transmission, The Hoping Mechanism was a hybrid digital performance which interrogated the ways in which the self is being produced across digital platforms as a result of technological promise, self-censorship, and algorithmic control. <img width="3042" height="1713" width_o="3042" height_o="1713" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/457cd8cffb4701060329059a01ffafeb3a012beff58a08583a9860d5af59955f/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.55.03.png" data-mid="177772865" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/457cd8cffb4701060329059a01ffafeb3a012beff58a08583a9860d5af59955f/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.55.03.png" /> No Gods In The Inbetween https://dianjoy.me/No-Gods-In-The-Inbetween Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:14 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/No-Gods-In-The-Inbetween <img width="750" height="1133" width_o="750" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1c26a7f3693206f015725d62be900b0dfffa818af67ecc2bf9b8cdbf867a322/11.jpeg" data-mid="178960009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/a1c26a7f3693206f015725d62be900b0dfffa818af67ecc2bf9b8cdbf867a322/11.jpeg" /> In a future in which more and more of us inhabit precarious as well as multiplicitous subject positions, the pursuit of meaning becomes harboured in the imminent present. Differing from linear utopian visions, this film explores the potential to exist outside regimes of epistemic violence. <img width="3614" height="2020" width_o="3614" height_o="2020" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f7bea04d2b84da4fb71908a4fac57ebf83150109b842c0a9bdf1330b3ba8ce4e/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.38.33.png" data-mid="177774377" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f7bea04d2b84da4fb71908a4fac57ebf83150109b842c0a9bdf1330b3ba8ce4e/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.38.33.png" /> It envisions a world stripped of structures of power: there are no gods, no stories or legends, no symbols or easily defined systems of representation. Without these structures, individuals are bound to make sense of themselves through orienting their actions in a self reflective pursuit of the sublime. They can be sure that something greater than themselves exists only through direct encounters with the transcendent, in weighty moments, and in their dreams. <img width="3608" height="2031" width_o="3608" height_o="2031" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9b83e8cb6564351ad9f26de86af691086468691bc3108b7bc0183dd53a083bd/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.49.40.png" data-mid="177774481" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c9b83e8cb6564351ad9f26de86af691086468691bc3108b7bc0183dd53a083bd/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.49.40.png" /> <img width="3617" height="2029" width_o="3617" height_o="2029" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08a3dcf8578bc841408f945ab8c5634f2a60b7e49370fba960427791a6407d7b/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.37.51.png" data-mid="177774480" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08a3dcf8578bc841408f945ab8c5634f2a60b7e49370fba960427791a6407d7b/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.37.51.png" /> <img width="3615" height="2027" width_o="3615" height_o="2027" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbbba08518554ad0083f66a5746609c785ef884a8fc59951c00dd4119d667e3f/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.51.23.png" data-mid="177774560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbbba08518554ad0083f66a5746609c785ef884a8fc59951c00dd4119d667e3f/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.51.23.png" /> <img width="3615" height="2025" width_o="3615" height_o="2025" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b2889ea012a6a083f845fe6635bcdf7a01e49f8acdc724a6fa0e7ab5671e730a/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.41.45.png" data-mid="177774673" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b2889ea012a6a083f845fe6635bcdf7a01e49f8acdc724a6fa0e7ab5671e730a/Screenshot-2022-08-24-at-22.41.45.png" /> <img width="2182" height="1212" width_o="2182" height_o="1212" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c4455da7899c75174120b2763b6c667192394603b6b58f827d86c2f895b839e/Screenshot-2022-09-07-at-18.40.36.png" data-mid="177774671" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c4455da7899c75174120b2763b6c667192394603b6b58f827d86c2f895b839e/Screenshot-2022-09-07-at-18.40.36.png" /> Topia https://dianjoy.me/Topia Fri, 05 May 2023 10:26:13 +0000 Dian Joy https://dianjoy.me/Topia <img width="1181" height="787" width_o="1181" height_o="787" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f1cbb905f8e9e04e6577ee84f51f1414f9f9cf00407ac99674f3b9782391a38/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_6.png" data-mid="177773284" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f1cbb905f8e9e04e6577ee84f51f1414f9f9cf00407ac99674f3b9782391a38/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_6.png" /> Since its inception in the modern era, the concept of ‘autonomy’ has broadly been defined as an individuals capacity to act upon their free will. In theory, this translates as the ability to actively pursue and execute ones own wishes in a way that lacks interference from others, whether this be from another individual or from a governing body. From law to neuroscience, ideas of autonomy have played an important role in reshaping notions about the importance fo the self, thus working towards a greater understanding of the human as an individual and in preventing practices of exploitation and oppression that have tainted human history. <img width="4098" height="2774" width_o="4098" height_o="2774" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5473246a85a3722e7feb79ae0df6ff3187dc20e47f64ce1e115bd02cfec87bb6/presse_topia_80.png" data-mid="177773351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5473246a85a3722e7feb79ae0df6ff3187dc20e47f64ce1e115bd02cfec87bb6/presse_topia_80.png" /> <img width="1181" height="1772" width_o="1181" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed5164531d2ae53c186eae9992c6822389aaa4b39dbe66f94a0fe216b7fa4fa2/dakota-evajoncquel27.png" data-mid="177773470" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed5164531d2ae53c186eae9992c6822389aaa4b39dbe66f94a0fe216b7fa4fa2/dakota-evajoncquel27.png" /> At the onset of a digital age, however, where the traditional concept of the ‘self’ as deeply intertwined with the physical body is once again coming under scrutiny, pursuing new ways to understand contemporary autonomy in relation to technology, has become a pressing concern. Through collectively investigating emerging concepts such as online identities, freedom of information, and connectivity, in Topia, BLUE explores a possible place for the agent in a now vastly interconnected world. <img width="1181" height="787" width_o="1181" height_o="787" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ff209e83ada94e0a3fbb9d7f8fcd7fea728909461e190e29cc613f4ac6edd6f/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_8.png" data-mid="177773545" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ff209e83ada94e0a3fbb9d7f8fcd7fea728909461e190e29cc613f4ac6edd6f/Dian-Joy_Portfolio_8.png" /> <img width="2763" height="1840" width_o="2763" height_o="1840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f5606e4febc5814e36e35a04e52c9b8d042cc6781e79559f565cde8c1f2fc89/P1150160.png" data-mid="177773548" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f5606e4febc5814e36e35a04e52c9b8d042cc6781e79559f565cde8c1f2fc89/P1150160.png" /> A single artwork made by 10 artists across 7 different countries, Topia represents an experimental approach to object-creation made possible only through the utilisation of digital channels. The auteur-less outcome takes the form of an immersive video installation that transcends the limits of personal and national borders, utilising and speculating on the potential of digital networks and information flow.