This work engages with Damien Davis’s recent article in Hyperallergic and challenges the structural limits placed on artists by the “emerging” category.

MY KA is inspired by the theme of the double and Maya Deren’s poem Death by Amnesia (1942). Yet she emerges from the earliest strata of my work—footage and visions that remained unfinished, veiled by the adversities and ordeals that haunt the path of artists. Only now, through this reawakening, does her form complete itself.

Dr Lila Moore’s essay on the theories, pedagogical philosophy, and artistic projects of Roy Ascott, co-written with Edward Shanken, is published in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of New Media Art: Volume 1 – History and Theory.

This audio-visual experiential lecture explores how mythical goddesses and female demons—such as Isis, Gaia, Binah, Lilith, Medusa, Erzulie and Hecate—function metaphorically and aesthetically as 'mothers' of artistic dance and film forms.