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BIOGRAPHY
Lark VCR (Lark Adler) explores the personal, political, and social implications of an increasingly digitized world. Through speculative fiction and critical design, they use humor as an entry point to engage audiences in non-didactic cultural critique. Lark received an MFA from UC Berkeley in 2016 and is currently teaching courses at intersections of art, technology, and queerness at San José State University and Stanford University in their home state of California. Their work has been shown at the Frameline Film Festival, MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Schewels Museum in Berlin.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Lark VCR makes speculative proposals to explore the pitfalls and possibilities of an increasingly digitized and bioengineered world. Working in hybrid forms of video and web-based media, they leverage humor as an entry point to engage audiences in non-didactic cultural critique. VCR stands for Virtually Conflicted Reality - it is both an homage to analog video and a skeptical nod at the techno-utopian promises of virtual reality (VR). Experientially, it is the state of perpetual disconnect we navigate as cognizant individuals who have no choice but to participate in systems defined by injustice.
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TATTLE-TALE HEART
Lark VCR and others, Tattle-Tale Heart, Digital video, 17 min, 2016
Tattle-Tale Heart is a speculative fiction about privacy and connection in social media. Characters dance on the double-edge sword of technological innovation as they navigate seductive technologies of biosurveillance in this dark/light-hearted portrait of queer subculture.
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