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About the work

Our post-modern media landscape, just as Jean Baudrillard has argued, deconstructs violence and genuineness through repetition and spectacularization. A.S.M.R., with its sensual (stimulating) and soothing character, is a metaphor for the media’s effort to both entertain (stimulate) and heal the audience. This video creates a dictionary for the future ASMR experiences we will have through our media: from tingling to trance.

About the artist

Leah Zhang is a multi-media artist and image creator. She received her BA and MAs in Film Studies at East China Normal University, China and University of Leeds, England, and she is currently an 2021 MFA candidate at Rhode Island School of Design. Leah is interested in how our perception and sensation are modulated by media, culture and technology. Her work is a research practice around film and media studies, science-fiction, as well as politics within the everyday life. It engages socio-history and reality through multi-sensorial, surreal and affective transfigurations.