SCREAM_COWER_PRAY

SCREAM_COWER_PRAY is a series of ceramic sculptures inspired by Oswaldo Guayasamín’s Las Manos series. Once fired, the sculptures were photogrammetrically scanned and rendered into a digital environment. Clawing and shrieking through layers upon layers of interpretation and processing, SCREAM_COWER_PRAY at once eclipses and emphasizes the human suffering documented in Guayamín’s original paintings. When do screenshots of suffering become parody of their former raw power?

Kevin Yin is a senior undergraduate in the School of Cinematic Arts’s Media Arts + Practice program. Their work spans across multiple mediums, from printmaking to screenwriting to experimental animation, and focuses on questions of human agency inside a landscape of digital noise. They are currently sweating out their thesis and researching neat stuff in MA+P’s Mobile & Environmental Media Lab.