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helen ip
artist, designer, educator
studio@helen.international

Auramodz, 2024
publication-as-game
edition of 100, risograph, 
3.5”x6” with legal size centrefold 
inside 6”x9” envelope
published by Bathers Library
thanks to Irrelevant Press
released at SF Art Book Fair 2024

Auramodz is a 31-day artist’s game in which each day involves a provocative chaotic cosplay transformation. Players are able to partake in whatever capacity they have. The game can involve one or more players, and the objective is to regain appreciation for oneself via the radical perspective shift of taking on the life of a lettuce, Ariana Grande, or even Wi-Fi.

These artist games are produced with a mail-friendly envelope in mind so that anyone can receive this game if desired.

L.V.A.’s Web, 2024
borosilicate glass
approx. 14”x8”x5”

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) can be seen as modern-day sigils—digital forms of protection from bad actors (both human and non-human) attempting to seek data. It is reminiscent of Charlotte the spider from Charlotte’s Web, who was able to inter-species communicate via her ability to write English words in her webs. Luis von Ahn (founder of Duolingo) is therefore our modern-day Charlotte. And the transparency of these sigils—the invisible power of CAPTCHAs—are often overlooked.

Common Matrix, 2018
dos-à-dos hardcover bound book-object, foil stamped
edition of 100, 4”x4”x2”

found paper, found objects
completed as part of the San Francisco Center for the Book Small Plates residency
sold out

Common Matrix is an archive of objects set in a speculative future, where a post-human civilization attempts to make sense of the detritus that has been left behind by the people of past. 14 objects are placed in a series of nested folding boxes, with 7 on each side of the book. On the front and back covers is a post-human script to denote the archive. 
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