SHAPE/SHIFT

2022

Artists: Bobby Joe Smith III (Black and Lakota) and Bomi Yook (Korean Canadian) 

Medium: Immersive audio-visual installation, community workshop, and experimental animation (no AI) 

SHAPE/SHIFT is an immersive community workshop set within a large-scale audiovisual installation, hosted at the Experimental Digital Arts Gallery in UCLA. Participants are immersed in a digital landscape featuring tricksters and ghosts from Lakota mythology and Korean folklore. Within this space, local artists and designers engaged in dialogue over the possibilities and challenges of activism and community-oriented thinking in art and design. The workshop fostered shared reflection on colonial histories and examined how creative practices can build solidarity with local decolonial movements through intentional cultural exchange.