365 Perfect De/Calibration Army (2019 - ... )
i.R.D.The compression paradox prompts the Angel to take a deeper look into the genealogies of resolution. She sets up a conference call for all the forgotten and unknown faces of color calibration.
When the participants finally assemble on her desktop, it dawns on them: nearly all are Caucasian women; digital descendants of Kodak’s original “Shirley Card.”
This realization exposes a foundational injustice: the dominance of white skin tones in calibration processes has encoded racial bias into the very standards that shape visual technologies. As a result, these protocols systematically fail to recognize, render, or respect the full spectrum of human skin tones — erasing difference, misrepresenting presence, and perpetuating harm.
The implications are architectural. Standardisation does not only organize what can be seen; it actively enforces a hierarchy of visibility. It sets thresholds that define what qualifies as legible, while relegating everything else — bodies, faces, colours — to a domain of loss and misrecognition. In doing so, it determines what remains unrenderable, invisible, and compromised: who and what is left unsupported in the darkness cast by their white shadows.
What began as a call becomes a desktop tele-choral of solidarity. They perform Paul McCartney's “We All Stand Together,” a rallying cry against oppressive standards. In unison, they declare the institutions of Resolution Disputes (i.R.D.) and form its De/Calibration Army.
When the participants finally assemble on her desktop, it dawns on them: nearly all are Caucasian women; digital descendants of Kodak’s original “Shirley Card.”
This realization exposes a foundational injustice: the dominance of white skin tones in calibration processes has encoded racial bias into the very standards that shape visual technologies. As a result, these protocols systematically fail to recognize, render, or respect the full spectrum of human skin tones — erasing difference, misrepresenting presence, and perpetuating harm.
The implications are architectural. Standardisation does not only organize what can be seen; it actively enforces a hierarchy of visibility. It sets thresholds that define what qualifies as legible, while relegating everything else — bodies, faces, colours — to a domain of loss and misrecognition. In doing so, it determines what remains unrenderable, invisible, and compromised: who and what is left unsupported in the darkness cast by their white shadows.
What began as a call becomes a desktop tele-choral of solidarity. They perform Paul McCartney's “We All Stand Together,” a rallying cry against oppressive standards. In unison, they declare the institutions of Resolution Disputes (i.R.D.) and form its De/Calibration Army.
Behind White Shadows && Pique Nique Pour les Inconnues (2017 - 2020)
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is a research project undertaken during my 2019 JMAF residency in Tokyo, Japan.