This piece includes a corporate instructional-like walkthrough video of an institution of mechanisms that are remnants of the Human Seam. It posits, what must a governing structure look once we move beyond the anthropocene and into landscapes that rely on movement, rather than form? When a boundary or flesh bilayer is removed, what is there to dictate the purpose of bodies as the Systems constituents? An exploration of reframed object oriented ontology, it's a brief but deep dive into the following logic: understanding is the condensation of perception and motion into law & form. Logic is based on relational dynamics in the communication between forms. What happens when something is formless? Form and flesh is based in hierarchy. Through subverting formal logic, movement instead can be the point of reference for governance. Virtuality is understood by quantized states of being. What is the substance between mesh, between the Digital Seams?

Self-portrait turnaround with some silly little goggles. Song featured is Family Tree by Kenny Beats (ft. Slowthai)

Fan-animation made in a week for the song Sunset Boulevard by Hohyun. The animation has received a personal shoutout from the artist himself on social media.

This video explores the loneliness people can feel living in New York despite it being a city that is perpetually on the move, constantly filled with emotion and action. This can easily translate to an overstimulation of the senses and a disassociation, when the feeling of everything happening everywhere all at once dwarfs one into feeling rejected and alone. This piece follows a traveler on a New York subway, with everything increasing in intensity and tempo as the music picks up.

Anomaly is an upcoming digital creative studio and conceptual exploration founded by Aparna Krishnan Reshmy, specializing in innovative and cutting-edge design solutions. The studio aims to provide a unique blend of creativity, technology, and strategy to help businesses and brands create impactful digital experiences that engage and inspire their audiences. With a focus on user experience, Anomaly specializes in using AR/VR and XR technologies to create immersive experiences that go beyond traditional design and pushes the boundaries of digital innovation.

This video explores the language I have pieced together from found footage with sounds articulating a love story of self-love and romance. The songs I incorporate speak to the atmosphere's tone, which transitions into the following rhythm and scene—a visual play on black love with sound and imagery.

The short animation tells the story of Margot, a girl who is constantly concerned about her safety, causing various dramas in her mind. I named her after the female character who is attacked by a murderer behind the green curtain in Hitchcock's film Dial M for Murder.My inspiration for this character is my observation that there are some experiences of fear that almost exclusively belong to females. For example, when taking a taxi, my male friends always naturally start casual and pleasant conversations with taxi drivers, while my female friends would be nervous, and seldom interact with the drivers.

A typographic exploration on the repetitive nature of life

Bay of Pigs is an experimental animation that uses dynamic systems and original music to explore the ironic presence of police forces.

Utopia for trees? A Utopian society is only considered a utopia for that specific party because perfection is subjective. The trees only want peace, and took over because humans were destroying the earth. Trees communicate through shared nutrients and water to send signals to each other, which is why the humans that are left must undergo tree adaptations so that they too can understand and communicate with their leaders, and each other without spoken language. Even in a "perfect" society, someone always wants to escape, which is where this story takes place…

This stop motion piece uses the technique of, "clay painting," involving the frame-by-frame movement of clay on a flat surface. The work depicts a textured yellow duck moving and grooving to a cheery 8-bit soundtrack.

This video is meant to be an absurd depiction of someone who is stuck in the process of having breakfast and ends up never having that breakfast. It was inspired by the surrealist film El Angel Exterminator by Luis Bunuel where the guests are unable to leave a party for no valid reason.

An attempt at conceptualizing the aftermath of a loss experimental animation.

The motion graphic teaser video designed for a fiction event called Light & Cognition in After Effect. The teaser video expresses lights in different visual ways by using color contrast, the composition of lines, and the interaction with a form.

This is a title sequence for the film Donnie Darko. The film is a dramatic/surrealist thriller, so I tried to use collage to emulate some of my favourite conceptual aspects and motifs from of the film. The animation was done on paper with graphite, working with pencil reminded me of the classroom, which is an important setting to the young protagonist.

Primarily traditionally animated in pencil on paper, this animated short is about listening to what you want for and of yourself and being able to find music within.

This piece was created impulsively but sincerely, motivated by personal experiences and emotions. Despite struggling with new techniques and objects, the artist finally settled on a theme that deals with warmth, vulnerability, and the influence of others on our mood and comfort. The blue hue of the face represents feeling down, but the green hand caressing it shifts the tone to an earthy and healing one. The piece is about care, feeling seen when you don't want to be seen, and being nursed and looked after. It encourages taking time to sit with your feelings and come back to a place of peace and fireworks.

A Fermata is a symbol of holding an unspecified pause on a note in a music score. In this project, it serves as a documentation of capturing the “fermata” from the consistent dominant happening, the sound of the passing train nearby the home I stayed in at that period of time.

This video/sculpture piece explores my personal relationship with food and binge eating. Food can feel gross, good, frustrating and pleasurable but mostly I find it to be overwhelming.

Stampede is part of an interactive video installation which explores themes of subjectivity through the portrayal of various characters running with a green backpack. The mundane depiction of frenzied modern life uses computer vision to track audience speed and distance as inputs to the film playback algorithm. The noisy algorithms mirror the chaos of life as these inputs imperfectly influence the full story that unfolds. Stampede challenges the audience to embrace uncertainty, consider what it means to be part of a complex system, and grapple with the role of physicality in a digitized world.

Sigma gym bro shows off his massive muscle striations to his internet audience

The adventures of a very, very small fish. The whole world is its pond!

A short animated film about a boy who gets lost in a museum.

Thinketh is an experimental hand-drawn animation (erasure, cel). The title, based on James Allen’s As A Man Thinketh (1903) is an exploration of the waking mind’s thoughts and how they come to shape an individual reality. Eva pulls from her own experiences: the cognitive dissonance of waking thought (the tended garden) versus the dark, immutable, and unruly subconscious mind which festers in her dreams. How does one come to terms with these opposing forces?

Immersive textual abstraction experience.

This short film captures a “Trans Tattoo Project” in which Colbert asked trans and nonbinary people to choose a word they feel connects to or encompasses their relationship to their gender and experience of transness. Colbert then tattoos those words on their backs as an immortal memoriam to their identities. This is an ongoing project, and since its start in December 2021 there have been over 50 participants. This tattoo project was featured in The New York Times in January 2023.

I made this work about coping with time inevitably moving forward while holding on to fragments of yourself from your past. Everyone ventures forward while grasping pieces of the past, but understanding the detriments of this action will allow you to fully embrace the present hardships for the good and the bad. This is coming to terms of where you are in time.

It is a stop motion animation using post-it note drawings as my primary animation medium. It was done for my stop-motion project in my Illustration major's Studio4D class. My short story centers around my OC(Original Character), Kito, the Bloodborne, in how he pops out of my sketchbook and attempts to parkour across obstacles to escape but unfortunately fails at his attempt. The title is based on the element he was lacking for his escape, which was Momentum. It took roughly 30 hours for 30 seconds worth of stop-motion animation.

A narrative that focuses on positivity, agency, and perspective into a two-minute visual storyline with images, animations, and a narrated screenplay. Images for this project are generated using Midjourney. The voiceover narration is by Aditi Gunna.

An alligator sees and eats a butterfly, but the action isn't of bad intent as the forest becomes repopulated by butterflies.

There was a place existed solely in my memory.
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I dreamed about it so frequently until the point that I could sometimes fail to distinguish it from my fantasy. Now, following my own steps, here I am.

Then I realized I just killed a dream,

And demolished a place.

Femininity is a dynamic, innovative performance that delves into the strict limitations society imposes on femininity. Women and female-identifying individuals are often expected to conform to the conventional image of a "perfect woman", characterized by traditionally feminine attire and behavior that is polite, accommodating, passive, and nurturing. Society, largely shaped by male expectations, demands women to maintain a smile and adhere to these standards. Any woman who asserts herself or speaks her mind is considered too assertive, and leadership positions are frequently reserved for men. This piece is a filmed solo live performance in front of a facial tracking device. The live visuals displayed is a response towards the performer's body and facial movements.

Good Old Days is an experimental animation of a futuristic city that utilizes traditional animation, 3D modeling, and AI algorithms. It is the film where I deconstruct my life and reimagine it anew, stripping away the distractions from my mind of the memories in Shanghai: the wandering streets, classrooms of collectivism, the Chinese family of controversy, and the perpetual underground culture.

Flooded House is a social experiment that confronts us with uncomfortable truths about climate change. It is no secret that the United States is one of the main contributors to global co2 emissions causing climate change. However, unfairly so, our increased access to mitigation and adaptation strategies make us blind to the damage we cause.Instead, more vulnerable communities and ecosystems bear the consequences.How would we change if we suffered the consequences of our own unsustainable actions?Flooded House simulates this scenario.  The user’s actions in the project determine how much their own home is destroyed by climate change.

My work often originates from a curiosity about capturing natural elements in a digital space. As such, scanning plays a significant role in my work. Over the past few weeks, I have explored scanning and learned how to incorporate these scans into generative art programs. This process has allowed me to discover new ways to visually interpret relationships. My ultimate goal is to create a comprehensive visual experience for my audience that showcases these discoveries.

“I Was Everywhere” montages video pieces from the artist’s personal archive, jumping back and forth throughout the timeline. She searches for seamless moments from the past, some that reflect the mundane and lost moments. Throughout many years of personal documentation, she challenges the theme of nostalgia because what does it mean to be nostalgic if you can see yourself everywhere all at once?

My video is about the mental health community – people who live with mental health challenges and those who aid in recovery. It aims to normalize mental health challenges and create a better understanding of this complicated topic. Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. live with a mental illness and yet there is so much stigma attached to it. My video aims to destigmatize mental illness. It is narrated by a psychotherapist who believes that mental illness is not a disorder but a process of creating order out of difficult situation. This perspective could help lift shame and stigma.

This is a poster series for the Pantone Color of the year, Very Perri. To explore this hue, I researched Pantone's process of how they chose this color, as well as its multifaceted meanings. I drew inspiration from Sheila Levrant de Bretteville's "Pink" and investigated the definition of Very Perri, applying it within a 3D motion space. I examined how Pantone's color of the year explores symbolism, creates contrast, and communicates meaning to inform our global narrative. The meanings were endless, from more futuristic ideas like the metaverse, NFTs, video gaming, and celestial trends to more emotional meanings like taking risks, covid-19, the sanctity of time, and gender neutrality.

A fun experimental animation using 2D analog illustration on the digital program Procreate App

This piece explores the fast-paced blur of city life through a performance. The past eight years of my life were spent in Mumbai, an extremely fast paced city. The different lives that I had the opportunity to glimpse juxtaposed into one blurry collage of humanity. And the move to NYC only reinforced this idea.
I wanted the performance to be removed from my human body, to strip it down to its essentials. Hence, I decided to map my movements onto an abstract digital entity made of the lyrics to Radiohead's ‘fitter, happier’.

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As we are flesh, so we are transient and ephemeral – or are we? Are you experiencing the uncanny feeling of being aware of the implications and consequences of your actions, and their world-altering reverberations? If Space was the final frontier, are we sensing our finitude as both a world-forming and a world-destroying species? Body of Evidence is a moving image essay about the Anthropocene. It takes on an uncanny presence, as I explore performance and voice work in digitally distorted landscapes.

Orbie is the life journey of several molecules that come into existence, gain an identity and endure whatever path they find themselves on. Just kidding, it’s a silly little animation featuring a green ball, or is it?

A young girl battles a mechanized robot on a strange wasteland

Voyager is an animation depicting character fight scenes, integrating 3D environments with visual effects. The narrative centers around three main characters - Akira, Reiya, and Kanon - combatting against a giant metal robot to protect the city from destruction.

This docu-fiction short follows the director's family business endeavor of opening a Chinese restaurant in Miami. The film is a celebration of the Asian diaspora and opens up a dialogue about labor and diversity in South Florida.

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Visuals experiment of dreams that express what we see with our eyes closed - Closed-eye hallucination. When you lie down with your eyes closed, a new world is formed in the field of vision, and the red, black, white, and blue glow shimmers which cannot be described in any words.

A personal reflection on the long-term effects of an early introduction to gun violence using found footage and still animation.

This is a short animated music video I created for Turkish singer Gaye Su Akyol's song "Develerle Yasiyorum" (I'm Living with Camels). The video is an homage to my hometown Istanbul and includes visuals that represent the Anatolian psychedelic rock movement.

This piece was inspired by Bridgerton (TV). A ball is hosted at the iconic Bridgerton house. Time to make your entrance.

rebuilding the natural world from our overdeveloped habitat

This is an identity and original concept for an awards show called “Image Maker,”  which names icons whose image has captured and shaped the zeitgeist. It explores image making as a type of currency in American culture. The visual language is inspired by both film and religion—with the marked up contact sheets showing the power dynamics involved in image making, and the regalia affirming that we are in an era of celebrity worship.

A psychotic subway dwelling rat, Rat, and his crocodilian best friend, Croc, prepare their revenge until shenanigans ensue.

This title sequence was created for 'The Bad Kids,' an intense 2020 Chinese television series that revolves around a murder mystery that impacts several families in a small town. The story follows three schoolboys who accidentally capture the murder on film.The series is full of suspense, horror, and unexpected twists that keep the audience on edge. To capture the essence of the series in the title sequence, I used a dark color palette and coarse textures, which enhance the ominous atmosphere of the story. In addition, I chose creepy and eerie background music that complements the visuals and helps create a sense of unease.

Created using a machine learning model trained on over 700 hand-picked digital images, Process attempts to exemplify and make visible ideas about chaotic emergence and creativity, novelty, assemblage, decay, and mutation. Forever in motion, the piece's visuals congeal, fall apart, and recombine in a shifting artistic ode to the natural state of ever-becoming.

This is a lyric video for the second verse of the hip hop song "Strangers" by Danger Mouse, Black Thought, A$AP Rocky, & Run the Jewels. This is A$AP's verse.

This piece attempts to reconstruct the causus belli of the Trojan War through the retellings of Homer, Sappho and Herodotus. Inspired by a line from Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress", the short film seeks to highlight the ambivalence of history and how technology impacts it.

There’s a thin line between dreams and reality. Just open your mind to the world of possibilities, you shall find what you seek.

short clip from my animation documenting the importance of creating and following personal daily rituals

"Two hearts become one in a journey of love and discovery, as a music video captures the magic and passion of a couple's intimate moments together."

CRADLE is an artistic research project that explores the relationship between discipline and the sense of security. Inspired by Peter Keler's Bauhaus cradle, the project includes a conceptual video and an interactive website. The video features three scenes derived from the cradle's functions and the general scene, where the cradle is represented in everyday situations like shopping carts and office chairs. The project examines why people prefer self-satisfying goods over daily necessities and how widespread insecurity mentality affects mainstream aesthetics. It also explores the paradoxical nature of discipline, which can both bring a sense of security and insecurity. The virtual world in the video highlights three places where people are regularly disciplined: the baby room, supermarkets, and cubicle offices.

A stop motion production depicting the feelings that come with feeling like prey. Fear and restlessness, but also unbridled anger.

Bling Bling marks the beginning of the “coinverse”—a collection of glistening other-worlds, creatures, and landscapes traversed through shiny portals. It is neither a retelling not a  reimagination. It just is.

This work is an animated letter morph of the letter 'M'. It begins with McDonald's, transitions from fries to hamburger, and finally explodes to become a tomato. The explosion of the hamburger represents the harmful effects of fast food and unhealthy eating habits on individuals and communities.

This work aims to explore the relationship between reality and the unreal, to express the true self and the inner spiritual power in a surrealist style. “If reality is a dream, I would like to dance drunkenly in the fantastic dream world forever.”

In this video, I projected photos and videos of strangers' windows on a mosquito net hung over my bed, so that I could be bathed in the warm light that I stole, and could appropriate the sense of home from others to my own. Painting the mosquito net with the window light I stole, I am blending my past with present, reality with fiction, so that I can create an enriched space for me to feel belonged.

A girl finds joy in the little things in life

Experience the breathtaking beauty of Pier 35 in New York City during the golden hour of sunset. Shot entirely on an iPhone 12 mini, this cinematic video showcases the stunning location with different frames and angles, highlighting the unique subjects and overall ambience of the area. Immerse yourself in the serene atmosphere and witness the magic of the golden hour at Pier 35.

The Lonely Generation is a semi-personal documentary following an ill-equipped, but well-intentioned filmmaker turned matchmaker as she attempts to help her Gen-Z peers in their search for love.

In 2094, years after the bio-arm war, survivors were miraculously captured in MODIS satellite imagery. Following this discovery, a research team formed to observe these inhabitants. Their initial reports concluded that, as a result of self-isolation, these humans lacked all communication. To determine their potential for interaction, two inhabitants were studied in a temporary facility using custom wearable intervention artefacts. However, within a fortnight, the experiment was declared inconclusive.

Neo-TCH 1.3 is a set of wearable-tech garments made of soft, gestural sensors, in a speculative world, to encourage curious interactions. This performance evokes new, reimagined forms of connection.

Project Alice is a series of video pieces created through glitch techniques applied to the 1951 Alice in Wonderland. By inciting fantastical images of a distorted digital world, I want to examine the methods by which we engage digital technologies. Using breakage as a conceptual medium, I play with corrupted pixels.

This stop-motion collage explores the idea of metamorphosis in life. Using clippings of current events from newspapers and illustrations from magazines to mark the passage of different years. The collage also explores how vernacular also changes with age, and how our perspectives shift.

Kinetic typography motion graphics based on an audio piece by sistercody.

These are what wakes me up.​Some (not so good) morning and reasons that I did not woke up naturally. I want to make this animation just to share a part of my life, and hope you find it funny.Animation created by stop motion, procreate, and edited by Pr.

This short animation portrays an alternative take on Santa Claus and his reindeer. Compared to the conventional kind Santa and his less personality-given reindeer, this is an imagined parallel universe where these two folkloristic characters have a more dramatic relationship.

This was an experimental piece that I made last years, I had lot of fun overlaying cartoon animations into live footage. It was for an assignment in my Time class, where we had to experiment with time-lapse videos.

What happens when comfortable silence is disrupted?

The five elements of "Qi", Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood, connect nature and life. Today these elements wear 'costumes' for the market.

This project aims to challenge the conventional understanding of the human form in the metaverse. By leveraging the power of machine learning, we seek to create a diverse array of body shapes and forms that are not bound by the constraints of the traditional human body. These fluid and dynamic body forms will still embody a human presence, yet they will push the boundaries of our perception of what it means to be human.

The journey of the furry butterfly is inspired by the Monarch Butterfly Migration route. Monarch butterflies must migrate because they cannot survive long cold northern winters. I'm fascinated by the journey that North American monarchs travel each fall from their summer breeding grounds to overwintering locations. This is a speculative propose that due to climate change, the butterflies will evolve into furry breeds to keep warm and this is their adventure journey of entering and exploring the surreal world of furriness.

When the principles of physics no longer apply and you can form this world freely, what will happen? Is it possible to have a spiritual world of complete autonomy and mastery? This is an experimental aesthetic VR project in which you have the freedom to shape your own world.

Aloneland is inspired from the poem with the same name, which wrote by Taiwanese poet Mengdie Zhou. The film is also a visual memory letter to him. Recorded by 16mm Bolex camera and combined with dance and projection, the film presents the understanding and perception of the director to this poem. Original sound is from the documentary film, The Coming of Tulku 2011.

Time flow forever. Cycle of energy never ends.

Encrypted Dialogue is a performance-based film that narrates how the human body can be turned into an instrument playing sounds from electromagnetic fields picked up via a wearable device. The project’s wearable device functions as a “translator” that allows humans to sense the EMF-based dialog surrounding us in Manhattan.

My piece explores the concept of erasure as a tool for manipulating historical archives to create new meanings. By removing certain elements and recontextualizing them within existing contexts, asking the questions of how the new information is created by retexturizing existing archives.

Dream Boy has no other choice. For him, to dream is to wake up.