darcy kim is
a spider dreaming they are a cyborg. as a watson fellow, my project took me to communities across Johannesburg, Manila, Seoul, São Paulo, Tokyo, Aruba, Berlin, and beyond, archiving how people live with, resist, and reimagine technology in places most impacted by its harms. my practice begins from the conviction that creators are not separate from their creations. technologies carry the ethical, spiritual, and political imprints of those who design them. under dominant colonial and capitalist paradigms, artificial intelligence often amplifies extraction, surveillance, and violence particularly against marginalized bodies. I work instead to cultivate AI as a tool for liberation: community-centered, locally grounded, and accountable to the ecosystems and lives it touches.

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American Psyche -Film
Made December 2022 for Asian American Women in Film class at Wellesley College. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OiY394K_rTXmwM3DF-Gv1K8Fkl6XVL6G/view?usp=sharing
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inked on page 278.5 of some book i eventually gifted
LAST NIGHT I DREAMt I was at school again getting ready for a rave with my girls. But it was hailing bombs outside and the dance floor is peppered with bullets keeping staccato tempo for bodies falling in time. I remember waiting at the door.…
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i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different
i landed in são paulo and *boy* does time move different time in europe is always slipping away. always chasing always being chased. i did not float but rush. it was winter when i left. i got used to the cold and could bare my…
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the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid.
the non-caterpillar non-butterfly filling a cocoon is liquid. a caterpillar, once wrapped in a cocoon, will begin to self-digest releasing enzymes that turn it into liquid. in this formless soup, there are cells called imaginal discs that contain the way of the butterfly in them.…
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trees grow out, storms grow down
another dream… Clouds are conductors of storms. Trees grow out, Storms grow down. I watch my mommy sleep propped up face shadowed by the light of her iPad mini blasting the k-drama castaway baby in a language i do not know except for its shape…
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vogue dreams of her conception
CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault Jobs taken under the constant cool of ac replacing whatever stale air can accumulate let’s Vogue stay calculating. Air alone is not the only thing changing moment to moment and to cognizantly die with each breath makes her the best psychological…
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magic pulled me into a shop
CONTENT WARNING: sexual assault magic pulled me into a shop. i walked by first then floated in. when the door shut behind me he asked if i had been here before. i responded no, in fact i just realized i came in at all. i…
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paris is purring | part 1
i wake up feeling like shit. so i decide to do what any other sane faggot would do in my situation: go to a ball***. (*** By ball I do not mean ballroom, which is a very specific and important scene of black queer culture…
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seoul bent the knee
i can feel it about to rain. is this the korean monsoon season? its really not as bad as that one seoulite from school described it. i thought the train stations would be flooding and walking would be battling through unrelenting sheets of water. i…

