ARTIST STATEMENT
“A Book of Diaspora/Disquiet” uses projector to illuminate hidden immigration stories onto blank, embossed pages. The work transforms reading into a ritual of revelation, surfacing the intimate human narratives often buried beneath official bureaucracy
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amo is a digital artist and creative technologist whose practice makes invisible systems, forces, and experiences perceptible — from the weight of immigration systems, to the hidden costs of artificial intelligence, to the thresholds between physical and virtual worlds. Working across tangible objects, interactive installations, and virtual spaces, she invites audiences into direct dialogue with her ideas, using interaction as the primary language.
Her work often begins with experiences that are deeply felt but rarely spoken, the kind understood through a glance or a nod rather than explanation. By designing interactions that ask something of the audience, a physical gesture, a moment of attention, a choice, she closes the distance between private experience and shared recognition. Whether projecting onto bodies, books, or ceramics to surface dualities between light and surface, or demanding physical effort to grasp the scale of AI’s energy consumption, each work asks: what shifts when you don’t just observe a system, but feel your place inside it?
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