transitional matter/s
i like to weave cultural nodes of becoming using art, tech and words as vibrant matter that manifests cultural wave forms of the emerging future.
my art and design has always explored the new materialist formation of cultural experience; from one collective reality to another, on varying scales. my passion for socio-political meaning is central to my work as I map key points in modern history as art forms, including visualizing the poignant possibility of lost Indigenous lives in the 1800s in like Flowers to exploring VR narratives in bodiescities Toronto to current experiment in a new format through my archival project Musee De New Normal initiated as a digital memoir during Cannes 2024. The work is in the form of an ongoing art-book-music album.
i am driven by a boundless curiosity for the synthesis and integration of culture and creative intelligence in the digitized posthuman new normals we find ourselves in since the new millennium.
Work in Progress: Part II of Diary of a Grrl, interactive travel based work focusing on European 90s history influences in today’s popular culture.
about eM/
eM is the artist name of Manori Perera (she/her). she is a Canadian self taught painter and writer, as well as a designer trained in Digital Futures at OCAD University Canada.
As a posthuman artist and futurist working with constructs of new materialist philosophy, eM explores the inter-connectedness of disparate elements – human and non-human - in very tangible ways to influence cultural shifts. Her work explores the digito-cultural manifestation of living history in this age of human-Ai relating in the early 21st century.
Her work layers analog and digital painting with digital found matter, code, and music. Her approach is influenced by her third culture upbringing in the Middle East, and intersectional perspectives from past work in transformative feminist social programming in the global south.
academics/
masters / digital futures, ocad university, canada
bachelors / communications, lewis & clark college, usa
post graduate / gender studies