Digital Media & Technology, Paris, France, May 2025
“I Can Be Your Dream Girl”, 2025
3-channel projection mapping; AI image generation (Midjourney, Runway); Deepfake (Deep-Live-Cam); Papier-mâché sculpture
“I Can Be Your Dream Girl” is a personal short film exploring the intersections of identity, fantasy, and AI distortion. The work reflects on the microaggressions I have accumulated as an Asian woman, specifically experiences of fetishization, intertwined with collective stories from female friends and women online.
Using selfies collected over the past year, I trained an AI (Midjourney) to generate nine “dream girls” that resemble me. I then used deepfake software to superimpose their faces onto my body, developing a narrative with uncanny variations of myself that blur the line between human and algorithmic perception.
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Rupture & Rebirth, 2025 and ongoing
Sprouts grown on bisque-fired recycled clay
This work examines resilience through a durational interaction between living sprouts and bisqueware. Seeds are grown directly on the ceramic surface, pushing through the clay and anchoring their roots within its porous body. Bisqueware, often understood as an unfinished, transitional state in ceramics, is repositioned here as a site of possibility. Its permeability enables growth, allowing rupture to function as a generative condition. Together, plant and object occupy a shared liminal space, where fragility, persistence, and becoming remain in continuous tension.
Contact, 2025
Video-based performance featuring contact improvisation dance where dancers maintain 1–2 points of physical contact throughout; Audio is constructed from ambient sound captured on separate devices, resulting in a layered stereo output
Contact is a movement-based work performed by Prita Hasjim and Pawel Reczek that explores the tension between intimacy and observation, the experience of being physically present with another person while simultaneously tethered to technology. Using contact improvisation as a foundation, the dancers maintain continuous bodily connection, creating a kind of choreographed trust and vulnerability. Simultaneously, the experience was audio recorded with devices taped to their bodies, allowing the phones to “listen” and generate a layered stereo soundscape.
This work plays with the idea of generative art, where movement produces more than motion, producing sound, space, memory. It also asks unsettling questions: Are we more attuned to our devices than each other? Are our phones the closest listeners in our lives?
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I Think I Hate You, 2024
View work at ithinkihateyou.pritahasjim.com
Mixed-media installation
Website created with Twine, HTML, CSS
What happens when love ends not with betrayal or anger, but with the quiet understanding that two paths must part? I Think I Hate You reflects on the end of a relationship through the mystical lens of tarot.
The work is rooted in a remarkable coincidence: before meeting, my former partner and I received nearly identical tarot readings that seemed to predict our encounter. Years later, after the relationship ended, I returned to tarot to process my journey, which unfolded in four stages: Grief, Confusion, Rupture, and Release.
This piece explores the paradox of a love that lingers even as lives move in different directions. It serves as a reminder that sometimes, the bravest act of love is learning to let go.
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Womb / Cocoon, 2024
Natural cotton textile, cotton embroidery thread, linen
Video projection done in Processing
Womb / Cocoon delves into the intricate tapestry of my connection with my mother and the cultural heritage she has passed down to me. The nuances woven in threads of love, tension, and understanding. I am her spitting image, a mirrored reflection, but my beliefs are divergent from tradition and societal norms. The only daughter, the rebel, so difficult to control, constantly rejecting my mother’s ideals and expectations. But overtime, we soften and painfully learn the art of forgiveness and acceptance.
My mother is a gifted lei artisan. While creating Womb / Cocoon, I embodied her lei-making practices, sculpting flowers from textiles rather than the traditional ribbon. I wanted to honor her by crafting the shell of an empty cocoon, a symbol of the warmth and safety she provided while growing up. Flowers and thread burst from the cocoon, representing the evolution of the young caterpillar into something new. The mirrored image serves as a poignant reminder of our modern world, where video calls bridge the distance and remind us that, no matter the miles, home is never too far away.
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WE ARE WATCHING, 2024
View work at wearewatching.pritahasjim.com
Website created with HTML, CSS, JS
Video created in TouchDesigner
A chilling reflection on modern surveillance, WE ARE WATCHING is a website and interactive video piece that draws inspiration from George Orwell’s 1984 and the pervasive reality of the surveillance state. Blending research on digital tracking with the ominous presence of Big Brother, the work reminds us that someone is always watching.
Created using TouchDesigner and public webcam footage, the piece features randomized video streams that evoke the unsettling omnipresence of surveillance. A spotlight follows the viewer’s mouse cursor across the screen, mirroring the eerie feeling of being constantly observed.
This piece highlights that you are never truly alone in today’s contemporary digital age.
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2024 - Collaboration & Technology, Paris, France
Movement, 2014
Processing
I created Movement to question the realms of time, space, motion, and destination. Building on another work, Right On Track (2012), I continued my exploration of human migration and movement. Aiming to craft a vision of perpetual flux, an ode to existence itself, Movement is a dynamic composition. It captures motion in real-time using a live webcam feed at University of California San Diego’s main plaza, spotlighting the ceaseless ebb and flow of student life.
This piece dissects these movements, displacing their fleeting traces upon surreal landscapes and collages of photographs I have taken from my travels. Presented at different times of the day, I invite viewers to question their routines and reality.
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2014 - Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Senior Art Exhibit, San Diego, California, USA
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