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Meet the current MFA Students in Kinetic Imaging

Hwiy Chang

Hwiy explores the spaces she inhabits, examining how humans interact with their environment and one another within those spaces. Her stories and works aim to be direct, welcoming, and engaging.

Miri Sluis

Miri Sluis’ work investigates the art of transformation & liminality in relation to sound and light. As KodiCrone, they merge play with impermanence to envision new stories around life, death & formlessness.

Haadi Haadi

My practice grows out of a negotiation between personal memory and collective history. Working across video and animation, I explore socio-political narratives rooted in the rural spaces I come from, places shaped by layered and often overlooked histories.
I draw on interviews, sound, archival images, and everyday objects to weave timelines that feel both personal and political. These materials let me move between observation and storytelling, fact and fiction. In bringing together different voices and perspectives, I aim to create spaces for reflection on identity, geography, and belonging, spaces that acknowledge silences as much as stories.

Adam J Santiago

Adam focuses on the intersection of Art, Technology, and Mythology. From Animation to Wearable Technology, Adam is hyperfocused on bridging the gap between the metaphysical emotions of the arts and the data driven facts of science. Does the tool or the user create? As an Artist, I only care about one thing, creation. The world is full of too much destruction. 

Lisandre Resto

Lisandre (they/she) traces the contact points of the material and the digital in order to shed light on how technology has been historically used to oppress people and land in the Global South via surveillance, extraction, and exploitation. Drawing on her Mexican and Puerto Rican roots, she seeks to unsettle notions that technology and nature are inherently divorced and re-appropriates these tools to work toward resistance, liberation, and decolonization.

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