jurtakaShrines

2022
performance and augmented reality project

jurtakaShrines are a collection of unique .glbs and videos developed in New Orleans, LA and composed while hiking the Latvian portion of Baltic Coastal trail in 2022. 

Nighttime Mouse

Experimentation with video performance and augmented reality (AR) utilizing a publicly available AR filter created by Craig Lewis. With the AR filter, I’m transformed into a mouse-woman hybrid character who monologues on the social media platform, Instagram - mainly at night. The linked video compilation is a curated selection of these videos.

 

 

The Peale Center

The Peale Center building, known historically as “Male and Female Colored School Number 1” acted as a departure point for the critical examination of historical and contemporary segregation in Baltimore City public schools explored in the RENOVATIONS gallery. In addition to an immersive exhibition of the history of education in Baltimore, the show tracks the nine students who graduated from School Number 1 in 1889 - Baltimore’s first all-Black high school graduating class. 

Educational Values

This body of work weaves traditional and new media to present a visual experience about the institutions, educators and progenitors who shaped how Baltimore’s Black community acquired formal training and knowledge.  In addition to a critical examination of historical and contemporary segregation in Baltimore City public schools, strikeWare tracks the nine students who graduated from School Number 1 in 1889 - Baltimore’s first all-Black high school graduating class.

fishTank

In 2018, with fishTank, we transformed Baltimore’s infamous, and now defunct, Marble Bar space into an immersive environment with interactive works intending to communicate the feeling of being underwater.

Bethel AME

This church represents the congregation of Baltimore’s African Methodist Episcopals, the first independent African American denomination. White religious sympathizers played an essential role for African Americans in the post-antebellum era. The augmented reality app takes the viewer through a three dimensional model pop-out of the building.

Crownsville

William H. Murray, one of the nine graduates memorialized in this exhibition, was beaten to death as an inmate here by a white guard in what newspapers at that time called “The Most Brutal Murder in Maryland’s History.” crownsville was notorious for overcrowding, patient abuse, refusal to integrate, and experimental operations - a grim example of how the state and federal government interpreted “public service” for Black citizens.

William H.

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