Gifts

The first 19 donors at the oddly specific $19.19 level will receive RASUK by Herdimas Anggara, a PDF that insists on being opened in Adobe Acrobat, as if it knows something you don't. It's fine; Adobe swears this sort of thing happens all the time.

You opened RASUK thinking it was just a PDF, which is how these things get you. One second you're checking a file; the next you're wondering whether this Adobe Acrobat is carnivorous. The interface behaves impeccably, too impeccably. After a while, you get the sense the document has opinions. It wants you to scroll a certain way, linger on certain words. You oblige, of course. You always do.

The first 12 people to donate $30 or more will receive a handmade zine by artist and poet kathy wu. The covers are made from the mylar balloons used in her residency installation, INTO UNCERTAIN WEATHERS.

wu’s project combined the materials of poetry, weather balloons, and haze to investigate technology’s affordances and limits in future telling. The book collects all of the questions submitted by the audience during the performance.

The first 3 people to donate $40 or more will receive the poster for Chia Amisola’s show Himala, a durational desktop performance. Chia’s amazing, intricate work asks: “Taking the rosary as Catholic infrastructure and the computer as a feminine container, can we make new mythologies and rituals that center these obfuscated intercessory, maternal bodies?”

(Note: These posters were used at Chia’s actual show, so they are not in pristine condition! We like that they bring some of that history with them, but totally fine if that’s not your thing.)

The first 2 people to donate $100 will receive a microcontroller, “Networked Hardware 2.0,” designed by the geniuses of MORAKANA, Tiri Kananuruk and Sebastián Morales.

Think of the board like a little creature that helps you create playful networks. You can connect things in the physical world to the digital one, like controlling video through its position in space, or make sounds based on light. You don’t have to know how to program, as it uses the cloud based Node-RED interface. These controllers were made for a collaborative class between MORAKANA and CultureHub and includes our names on the piece. (You can read more technical info and see videos of their work here!)