Aleksandra Ola Nguyễn

~ Graphic Work ~

Ice Twister Tongue Breaker

2024

Get knotted up in the ponderings of your life, from the casual to the intimate, at unik14.github.io. The website asks questions about different parts of life, from childhood to friendships and relationships to work to death, in no particular order. You can't hit the delete button, like in a real conversation - because you are conversing with this software, and the screen and keyboard are the interface.

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Mouse Moment Menu

2024, laser-engraved fluorescent acrylic

Commentary on surveillance capitalism perpetuated through a TikTok trend of the Mouse Moment. The menu offers a range of media that keeps (mainly) young people constantly stimulated, especially when having a meal alone. Mouse moment is a term coined on TikTok to describe this moment of solitude. People record themselves eating alone and call it "having a mouse moment".

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Queering Vietnam

2022

A visualization of messages left in Vietnam on the Queering the Map website. The themes describe the content, and the moods describe the author's feelings. A darker color corresponds to higher numbers of messages with the same theme or mood. The right tab lists demographic data and limitations of this data collection.

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Modern Reform

2022

Banknotes for dystopian Poland where the conservative party, PiS, continues its reign. Accompanied by slogans that match the chosen politicians: 1) "safely isolated from progress" 2) "tradition and faith before people" 3) "human rights are a leftist utopia."

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A Day At The Park

2024

A humorous, absurd, but hopeful game where you explore the world where the digital and physical merge - something parallel to our world. I comment on the dread of the contemporary world I live in, where advertising and consumption are equal to religious gospel in the search for comfort and ease, where everyone wants to tell me how to do something, and where trust and genuine connection are rare in the age of constant interaction. Rather than reacting with cynicism and apathy, I want to stay hopeful, loving, and unjaded. The shortened game-play is shown in the images above.

The game is available here. Made with Flickgame.org.

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