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at what point does a performed belief become an embodied belief? i believe that reality is different from the real . i’m not sure the real is knowable or that i care. reality is a social construct, enforced by po
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i don’t mean to sound dramatic, but Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña’s La Casa Lobo literally altered the course of my life. >in May of 2020, my mom sent me a short film review. >>three months later, i finally hun
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[Content warnings for this page: mentions (but not details) of abuse, and general discussion of trauma. There are also spoilers for La Casa Lobo. If you haven’t seen it, you could watch it here (rent/buy, supports the film
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La Casa Lobo feels essential to this project not just because it’s the reason I ended up in grad school, structuring this weird web to pass off as a thesis——but because it builds art around the manipulation and grafting of inconsistent
1-30 daelyn lambi 2/13/23 1-30 daelyn lambi 2/13/23

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The first horror movie I ever watched was Poltergeist. It was summer and I was eleven. I had returned, week after week, to its vhs case on the wire shelf at my local video rental shop. Something was drawing me in .
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warning: piece has audio, you may want to start with your speakers turned down. instructions: desktop: click within the frame to start, then use the arrow keys to navigate/advance text. smartph
1-30 daelyn lambi 2/9/23 1-30 daelyn lambi 2/9/23

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“ Cyberspace is real space. It’s light and it’s metal and it’s magnetism . ” In October of 2022 I had a “studio visit” (in quotes because we were not in my studio, but at Caldera) with Bogosi Sekhukhuni. [Put some things here abou
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Broadly, a meme is just an element of a system (usually: culture or behavior) that is transmitted through imitation .  The term comes from the Ancient Greek mīmēma, “imitated thing”, shortened to resemble the word “gene”, as a way
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[Content warnings for this page: mentions of predatory behavior, and discussion of dysphoria. There are also spoilers for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.] I went into We’re All Going to the World’s Fair expecting a straightf
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Prior to this work, the little I knew about QAnon was against my will, and I was fine to keep it that way. However, it feels like an essential belief system to look at if I’m going to try and make an analysis of constructions of reality
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The way The Blair Witch Project took advantage of a new media’s appearance as a reflection of “the real” vs. a constructed reality is nothing new. When photography first began to become publicly accessible… need an intro bit here abo
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I didn’t see my first horror film until I was eleven, but I knew the entire plot of The Blair Witch Project the summer it came out, when I was ten. Someone (I can’t remember who, but presumably one of my friends with an older sibling) w
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chi·​me·​ra | /kīˈmirə,kəˈmirə/ | noun 1: an imaginary or mythical animal compounded of incongruous parts. 2: an organism containing a mixture of genetically different tissues, formed by processes such as grafting, or mutation. 3: a fa
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I’ve always been a little fascinated by projects that take viewers unknowingly over a boundary into a different reality. On a base level they’re often just fun to interact with, but they also point to the ways in which all realities are
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the stabbing case: the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of the case in most media and discussions (and how this then excludes conversations about what actually happened, which though very specific, also did arise from these conditi
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this inquiry feels important and close to me right now, as our lives are continually more and more merged with our digital devices (maybe add something re: how our smartphones appear in our body schemas, or link to this piece from a line
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When I was in 5th grade my small group of friends and I would hang out in the woods during recess, away from the eyes and ears of the bored faculty monitor. There was a small creek. We would talk. Step on stones.  (REWORK THIS PARAG
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something about polybius secret government psychological experiments (having a root in real activities) other fear based themes: data-mining, addiction, broad physical side-effects, the object being gone but having some fragment of
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What’s interesting about QAnon, is that it isn’t just indoctrinating young white men—though they continue to be the ones carrying out the physical violence that is rooted in the forum-based narrative spaces where QAnon has been tended and
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