Neeti Sivakumar
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email me @ neetisivakumar@gmail.com
THE HUG

2025


Medium: Video, 00:07:44

Supported by: 
Tisch Initiative for Creative Research, NYU Tisch ITP Research Residency

Exhibited at:
SPAM New Media Festival
Clive Davis Gallery, NYU
Civic Projects Lab, The Cooper Union
HEAR US Mini-fest, NYU
As I build my grandmother virtually, I raise questions of virtual bodily autonomy reflecting a similar loss of autonomy she faces in real life. Through it, I question the role of posthumous technology in grief and loss through the lens of ethics. What does it mean to share stories of those passed?

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