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"Although the attraction to artificial images and bodies could be rooted in an attraction to some version of real women, it has evolved into something largely alien. Cosmetic surgery and photo alteration are similar in that sense to corn syrup, plastic, smart phones, and pornography: once exposed to this technology, humans cannot be trusted to use them tactfully and mindfully."

MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art. Kangmin Kim is a powerful example of the modern independent filmmaker. Collaborative, decisive, and ultimately singular in his vision, he’s screened at major festivals like Sundance, Annecy, SXSW, and Glas. KKUM, his most recent project, took home the grand prize and audience prize at Ottawa, a tremendous achievement. What makes Kangmin’s short films about family and inner friction resonate with audiences is hard to pin down. Is it the tactility of his figurines, puppets, and models? Is it his off-kilter and nuanced storytelling, or perhaps his natural facility with the camera? Hard to say, but what remains after viewing his multimedia short films are lingering questions about symbolism, relationships, and of course, the nature of movement. He guides us into microscopic worlds and outward to the expanding cosmos, but in the end he always delivers us back to a very recognizable planet Earth.

MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.

Utilizing the universal tools of graphite and paper as a base, Amanda Bonaiuto draws and redraws sequences of flora and fauna in powerful clusters that punctuate short films, music videos, and documentaries. She’s made videos for popular touring bands like Rubblebucket and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. She’s screened her morphing hand-drawn stories at festivals across the globe, such as Annecy and Ottawa. She was nominated for an Oscar after collaborating with the production team of the hilarious short film My Year of Dicks, and currently Amanda shares her curiosity and her rhythmic approach to animation with her students at Parsons School of Design in New York.

MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.

Nazanin Noroozi is a multidisciplinary artist who makes films, prints, handmade paper, and books referencing family histories, injustice, natural disasters, and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in her home country of Iran.

"Without provocation, she smashed her open palm into Arnold’s face, and again before he grabbed both her bony wrists.”

MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.

The creator of the popular video sketchbook, Erik Winkowski conducts mixed-media imagery like an orchestra. He uses vintage footage, paper cutouts, photography, drawings, and paintings for his wide output of animations and digital experiments that reference play, openhearted experimentation, the history of art, and daily living. He’s screened work in New York and Paris through CADAF, and he’s made experimental digital art for Prada, Gucci, Hermès, and the Rolling Stones. He lives and works in New Orleans.

Miracle Jones talks with novelist and conspiracy expert/enthusiast Robert Guffey (author of Chameleo and Bela Lugosi's Dead) about the true origin of QAnon and its goals after the 2020 election. They also discuss taboos in movies and conspiracy theory as both an existential challenge and an art form.

On the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, five Asian women writers read from their work and address the rise of anti-Asian bigotry in the United States. Coming from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds, Jerrine Tan, Paula Mendoza, Celina Su, Devi S. Laskar, and Pauline Park together throw a powerful light on the past and present of American racial capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism. They draw from intimate personal experience and strong political convictions to propose an intersectional and international feminism as the way forward. Reading co-presented by The Evergreen Review and Singapore Unbound.