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multimedia presentations, exhibitions, and publicly accessible tools and databases that document subcultures and perspectives omitted from mainstream narratives. Suparak’s projects have been exhibited at prominent institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Institute of
Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Walker Art Center, and she has curated for the
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imagination of high tech futures with Asian characteristics and architecture. She explores themes such as
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The performance lecture is includes images from dozens of futuristic movies and TV shows where she discusses the implications of not only borrowing heavily from Asian cultures, but at the same time decontextualizing and misrepresenting them. Her work also address the exclusion of Asian bodies in the
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Asian futures, without Asians is a series of new multimedia presentation by
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