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Digital Media, GIFPETSCII Comics2020-ongoing
PETSCII Comics, 8-bit text-mode animated GIFs, explore digital storytelling through game aesthetics. Each minimalist strip exists in a liminal space between reality and surrealism, constructed within the constraints of Commodore 64's PETSCII charset. 

These narratives are deliberate acts of visual economy, challenging contemporary digital excess by proving that less can indeed be more. My works demand active viewer interpretation where the audience becomes a co-creator, interpolating meaning from each pixelated fragment.

Brutal yet poetic, flashy yet restrained, these animations capture fleeting moments and non-human perspectives with a raw, unfiltered aesthetic. Each animated GIF becomes a compressed – but rich and compelling – universe of intimate experiences and thoughts. The mundane is transformed into visual poetry.

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Exhibited at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 
September 20 - October 24, 2024

Exhibited on Objkt, 2024

Exhibited at Année Zéro, Festival des arts numériques, Bernay March 2022

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