365 Perfect De/Calibration Army (2019 - ... )
The upgrade 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, they quickly realize that nearly all of them are Caucasian women; digital descendants of Kodak’s original “Shirley Card.”
A discovery that exposes a critical failure: the dominance of white skin tones has profoundly shaped image calibration standards. As a result, these protocls cannot accurately capture or render a broader spectrum of skin tones.
While standardisation organizes what can be seen, it also 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.
Together, 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.