Prototype Name: Missing Objects Library
Artist(s): Asma Kazmi, Jill Miller, Kathy Wang - all (she/her)
Year: 2023
Material: Video installation
Missing Objects Library (MOL) is a curated, web-based repository of handmade 3D objects that are designed with an intersectional, feminist lens.
MOL is displayed as both a physical video installation and a web-based, free model library.
MOL offers an alternative to commercial, status quo storefronts that provide digital assets for game design and special effects. Objects sold in these spaces are typically devoid of provenance, and they continually reinscribe false notions of neutrality while privileging a white, cis, heteronormative dominance. In contrast,
MOL is an open platform with downloadable models that accurately represent the world we inhabit.
MOL disrupts historical gatekeeping performed by “neutral” marketplaces by offering 3D modeled objects that span a wide range of identities, abilities, and affinities. In addition to critiquing existing 3D model storefronts,
MOL builds community by offering an economic system of reciprocity, where technological representations of things are exchanged to produce meaningful relations and effects.
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Jill Miller (she/her) - Artist
Jill Miller’s artwork uses a wide range of media, from experimental digital technologies to public practices. Miller makes art through a feminist, intersectional lens, and her work uses humor as a strategy for opening up meaningful conversations about challenging subjects. She often uses technology to create comical spectacles that propose impossible solutions to social problems. She is an art professor and member of the executive committee at the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.
Asma Kazmi (she/her) - Artist
Asma Kazmi’s large scale installations blend physical and virtual spaces: drawing on her history as a third-generation émigré, Kazmi’s experimental museums make use of Islamic display devices and strategies to address colonial and indigenous technologies and knowledge, global flows of people and commodities, and interspecies entanglements. Kazmi is a professor in the department of Art Practice and the Berkeley Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley.
Kathy Wang (she/her) - Design Director
Kathy Wang is a talented designer and creative technologist, specializing in AR/VR and AI to create captivating human-computer interactions. Passionate about feminist technologies, she addresses bias in digital art. She inspires others to explore their potential with these tools, pushing boundaries and fostering a dynamic, diverse, and audacious art community. Through collaboration with other artists and technologists, she continually experiments to create innovative art that embraces the infinite possibilities of emerging technologies.
