DEAR DEER

2K color video triptych, 10:10 loop, 2019


Dear Deer plays with color on a leucistic canvas by imagining a new interface for genome editing wherein the material properties of video signals become stand-ins for processes targeting c-kit, mitf, EDNRB, and so forth to enable live-editing of a subject's pigmentation at the pleasure of the experimenter. Selective breeding for color, designer animals, and kindred anthropocentric attitudes inform these and other oppositional strategies to camouflage. 

*Please note that a single channel version of the same name was created in 2022.


Created at The Institute for Electronic Art (IEA).  The IEA's Experimental Projects Residency is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.