On January 27th, I will be leading a 3-hour seminar the graduate art history department about embodied archives.

In this workshop, I will share insight into my work around embodied histories and sonic-scent memory. Participants will hear about the process and research informing my current projects: Saccade, which uses tattooing and eye-tracking to mesh nostalgic gaze with oral history, and Field Notes, my exploration of sound and smell as vessels for memory. This presentation will be followed by a group activity for all to speculate on their own approaches to sensory histories and immersive archival textures. 

As part of the 9th installment of media art salon, TIAT, I presented Dump Site (an online archive of files pulled from the trash folder and recently deleted).

I am currently a community member at New Inc's incubator. During my membership I will be building on my ongoing exploration of ambient archival practice.

Dump Site had its project debut and first trash drop-off day at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. The stewards of Dump Site presented the project, while participants brought their computers to dig through and discuss their own digital trash afterwards. The presentation discussed the research and core concepts that shaped the project. Visit event page

Dump Site is an archive of files pulled from the trash folder. This virtual landfill is a multimedia mass of files that were recently deleted and almost erased. What we throw away is a candid echo of what we keep close: projects, secrets, gripes, inspirations, loved ones. Dump Site is a public diary, a screenshot confessional. Conjuring memory through the lens of discard, these second-hand files evoke a sentimental gaze toward desktop debris. Dump Site is gathered by me, with Dorothy Tang as archivist, and Robin O on site design. Visit Dump Site

ZK/U is production site, artist/research-residency, program platform located in Berlin. There, I researched ambient memory capture, and new media archival practice. The first focus of my research explored the concept of ambient memory-capture: through field recording, 3D scanning, smell, texture, and new media. The second focus of my research explored ambient memory-keeping: sever-hosting, RAID protocols, and ethical data infrastructures. This research is ongoing, and will inform experimentation with archival practice in collaboration with communities, families, and subcultures.

Saccade was debuted on March 2nd with live sound performances by Chou Chou, Sylvia Ke, Jellyeee, and Anti-Rocker. Showcased alongside works by Sarah Sitkin, David Bayus, David Kasprzyk, and Kit Meadows, Saccade is an embodiment of the intimacy between body and machine. This premiere took place at Melrose Botanical Garden, in Los Angeles, CA.

Saccade is a corporeal articulation of memory through eye-tracking and tattoo, merging sentimental photos with nostalgic gaze. In collaboration with Casper Go and Sylvia Ke, Pang uses eye-tracking data to generate tattoo designs based on sentimental imagery provided (and looked at) by clients. Playing with the permanence of tattoo and the fleeting nature of memory, Pang tattoos one’s impression of a photo rather than the photo itself. In this project, rapid eye movements are captured, mapped, and etched into the skin. With Saccade, looking at and looking back are captured at once in a freeze frame and embedded in a tattoo. As the viewer convenes with the memories embedded in the picture on the screen, their gaze transforms into a permanent ephemera. Click for more info

Sidney Le and I organized a fundraising party for Yao Collaborative, in preparation for their new book, Shifting the Angle of Shine: an anthology of artists and collectives from 2013 - 2023 working in China, Hong Kong & beyond. The event took place at b4bel4b gallery in Oakland, CA, and featured video and music from Shanghai Community Radio, one of the book’s contributors in conversation with Hong Kong Community Radio.

Discussing Cyberfeminism Index and digital communities with Mindy Seu, Chia Amisola, Molly Turner at The Lab in San Francisco. We discussed community-building online, aesthetics of rigor, and making vs. gathering. Event Info

觉 is a gathering of workshops, conversations, performances and collaborations. The event centered queer sino-diasporic artists / makers. 觉 (jué) is an expression of feeling embedded, generated, and realised by sino-queer experience. MaggZ and Output Field provided a showcase of movement, sound, image, and tea. Through Output Field, I co-curated and co-produced a live showcase of artists of queer sino-diaspora with MaggZ at b4bel4b gallery in Oakland, CA.

I wrote an essay about the transformative power of blastovers in tattooing. The piece uses tattooing to discuss permanence as a spectrum, embodiment, and memory. Read here

TTTism was a contemporary tattoo magazine.

At the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, I discussed the work I did through Output Field by exploring the world-building potential of making experimental, critical, speculative art. When experimental artists make subversive work, they also make beacons for radical community and sow seeds for collective action. Full lecture here

As a guest lecturer, I hosted a class about meme and image as material discourse: How do we use memes to reflect and impact our spaces? How can memes be a tool for critical theory, how do we position ourselves in this new medium of discourse? Full presentation here

In partnership with Andy Slater, founder of the Society of Visually Impaired Sound Artists, I led a user-research project to establish both UX/UI and Strategic avenues to make New Art City more accessible. New Art City is an online exhibition platform, and Output Field’s partner. Full audit here

As a guest speaker, I discussed Chaos & Corporeal Art with Arder on Lower Grand Radio

As part of a showcase with New Art City, I gave a curator tour of the digital exhibition I curated called Skin Garden. There, I presented the three rooms in the exhibition (Bodies Unhinge, Reconsider Flesh, Walk-ins Welcome), the theoretical research behind the exhibition, and the curatorial intention behind the exhibition. Watch the video presentation here

Output Field presents its debut exhibition: Skin Garden, a collection of new media artworks discussing bodies: through movement, space, sound, self, and fellow bodies. Skin Garden is body language. The three rooms inside this lobby present audiovisual reflections on our physical vessels, as they relate to trauma, language, queerness, tradition, and multiplicity. More info here

Zeus Jones is a creative strategy consulting agency - as a contracted Creative Futurist, I worked with their teams through compiling and distilling research, creating strategic frameworks for clients, creative direction, concept development, strategy, ideation, copywriting, and storytelling.

In 2020, I founded Output Field, an organization gathering a database of people, collectives, & projects in experimental arts & research. Our core work is building an online database of underrepresented voices in the arts. As the founder of this organization, I do project management, event programming, curation, and branding. As the the core community organizer, my responsibilities include: organizing events, managing communication between artists, and guiding volunteers. Output Field website

Part of an ongoing collaboration with performers around the world: capturing movement into line, and transferring line onto skin.  In this series, I create tattoo designs by tracing movement through a screen. Spurred by the pandemic, I consider different manifestations of remote collaboration. This project is my way of incorporating two analog art forms (tattooing and dance) with the digital channel we’ve been restricted to engage through (video chat). More info here

designaffairs GmbH is a design agency with locations in Munich, Erlangen, and Shanghai. Their clients work in software, medical devices, consumer electronics, and more. I worked with teams of other designers and engineers and conducted design research, consulted on strategy, and created design concepts.

Reimagine End of Life is a week-long festival surrounding the topic of death and dying that has toured around the US. I worked with a team to curate the San Francisco event. I designed a physical toolkit to help visitors process their experience and prepare for end of life for themselves or a loved one. More info