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Cyberpelago explores the many facets of feminized diasporic labor through artificial landscapes and an avatar created with a LiDAR scanner.
serving as a 'patcher' within virtual spaces, a digital avatar reflects the disproportionately domestic labor of Overseas Filipino Workers as she cleans and cooks.
Cyberpelago evolved as the project developed, furthering concerns about perpetuating stereotypes and the model minority myth by failing to support those facing a familiar, colonial genocide.
installation image (courtesy of Moss Y. L. O’Connor + Flush Gallery)
patch 0.0
the work-in-progress version of Cyberpelago
2024, digital video, 01:38, color, sound, LiDAR scans
where Cyberpelago emerges from --
in patch 0.0, new media scans of ordinary items are arranged to create a surreal landscape. throughout the piece, the objects rotate, becoming a three-dimensional map of rolling hills, pastel valleys, and sparkling rocks. these objects are imperfectly made, however, eventually exposing unscanned voids and digital fragments.
install photo at mattress factory (pittsburgh, pa)
copyright © 2025 Gia Abucejo - all rights reserved.
screenings + exhibitions
Uncharted Waters: Technological Imprints, A Space Gallery, New York, NY.
Community Fest: The Archives, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Moral Injury, Flush Gallery at Hercules Art Center, New York, NY.
oat milk + HXNY: Diaspora Kaleidoscope, Brew House Arts, Pittsburgh, PA.
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