Curation
The Assetory
Lotus Mutations (Digital)
Lotus Mutations (Ceramic)
Porous Terrain 2024
I Don’t Know Chinese 2024
Homeland 2023-2024
Textiles/Roots
The Asset Library (Assetory) began as a project funded by the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA McMaster), and quickly expanded as part of the Sari-Sari Xchange (SSX).
The project aims to provide the creative community with tools to address unchecked misrepresentations of the Asian diaspora in technologically extended-reality (XR) spaces. It aims to combat racist and fetishized depictions of Asian culture that dominate asset libraries used for creating cinema, video games, and digital art. Through the creation of a 3D asset library that more accurately reflects Asian experiences, this project uses art as a means to improve diversity in XR realms.
This project consists of 3D scanned artifacts from the McMaster Museum of Art, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and objects typically considered outside of the academic realm such as foods, wrappers, and household items. Themes of cultural preservation and reclamation prompted this project. It has since become a space for collaboration amongst several communities that are not typically represented in extended-reality media.
The Assetory now exists as a larger database that can be accessed through the SSX platform. I have presented this project at academic conferences such as the Universities Art Association of Canada conference and McMaster’s Equinox Conference hosted by the Network Imagination Laboratory. The 3D scans have been used by the McMaster Museum of Art for display purposes, and by the Art Gallery of Hamilton as part of their own asset library.