ROWENA KOU
Rowena Kou's practice integrates material experiment, digital systems, and poetic structures, creating installations that interrogate thresholds between nature and technology, cultural perception and spiritual embodiment.
Rowena Kou's practice integrates material experiment, digital systems, and poetic structures, creating installations that interrogate thresholds between nature and technology, cultural perception and spiritual embodiment.
SAGAN YEE
Sagan Yee is a trans queer media artist whose practice reflects the restlessness of many modes of being. His work roams across animation, games, alternative controllers, and speculative fiction.
Sagan Yee is a trans queer media artist whose practice reflects the restlessness of many modes of being. His work roams across animation, games, alternative controllers, and speculative fiction.
CHELLY JIN
Chelly Jin is an interdisciplinary new media artist synthesizing computation and media-based performance art. She unravels how her body and constructions of memories are, or resist, their programmings.
Chelly Jin is an interdisciplinary new media artist synthesizing computation and media-based performance art. She unravels how her body and constructions of memories are, or resist, their programmings.
STAMATIS HAMOUZAS
Stamatis excavates architectures of control—mapping how crisis is engineered into markets, environments, and memory. His work exposes how empire recodes life as threat, fuel, or collateral.
Stamatis excavates architectures of control—mapping how crisis is engineered into markets, environments, and memory. His work exposes how empire recodes life as threat, fuel, or collateral.
SADIA QUDDUS
Sadia is an artist and designer investigating relationships between the corporeal, virtual, and territorial body. She researches surveillance technologies, terrestrial politics, and cyber-mysticism within the conceptual framework of the “Image Body.”
Sadia is an artist and designer investigating relationships between the corporeal, virtual, and territorial body. She researches surveillance technologies, terrestrial politics, and cyber-mysticism within the conceptual framework of the “Image Body.”
XINER LAN
Xiner Lan is a multimedia storyteller crafting worlds where realities converge, working across game, video, performance, and installation—unified through what they call the “script.”
Xiner Lan is a multimedia storyteller crafting worlds where realities converge, working across game, video, performance, and installation—unified through what they call the “script.”
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Opening Night:
Thurs. Oct 16, 5 to 8 PM
Exhibit Run:
Oct 16 - Oct 23, 2025
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UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
The Broad Art Center (New Wight Gallery)
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456
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To cross a threshold is to forget. You enter a space and wonder: why am I here again? This phenomenon is called the Doorway Affect. A shift in perception caused by moving from room to room remakes the world anew. Traversal is a form of constant creation.
The enemy makes its own means of access. They will break down the door and create one contiguous wound in spacetime. When the violence finds us, we part but do not sever. Always there is the least little bit of flesh clinging on, uniting the parts by a hairsbreadth. What is division but parthenogenesis, the birth of two worlds from one?
Think of all the places we touch, and all the places we do not. The latter always outnumbers the former. Yet the wider the gaps between us, the more space we take up. Consider these works for the myriad possibilities they form in your brain, like bubbles:
beneath this veil
within this cave
under these bones
behind these walls
inside a cracked brick
Find refuge in uncommon ingress, and remember
THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN
The enemy makes its own means of access. They will break down the door and create one contiguous wound in spacetime. When the violence finds us, we part but do not sever. Always there is the least little bit of flesh clinging on, uniting the parts by a hairsbreadth. What is division but parthenogenesis, the birth of two worlds from one?
Think of all the places we touch, and all the places we do not. The latter always outnumbers the former. Yet the wider the gaps between us, the more space we take up. Consider these works for the myriad possibilities they form in your brain, like bubbles:
beneath this veil
within this cave
under these bones
behind these walls
inside a cracked brick
Find refuge in uncommon ingress, and remember
THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN