The Michigan Daily

Astria Suparak’s ‘Asian futures, without Asians’ exposed Orientalism in sci-fi, and that’s needed

Astria Suparak at the “Asian futures, without Asians” event. Isabela Fischer/Daily. Buy this photo. When the announcer welcomed Astria Suparak onstage at the UMMA’s Helmut Stern Auditorium, viewers ...
The Michigan Daily

Astria Suparak talks Asian culture in sci-fi at UMMA

Astria Suparak delivers a multimedia performance on the issues on films with Asian culture influences without Asian actors Wednesday evening. Bela Fischer/Daily. Buy this photo. Over 90 students, ...
Yahoo

'Outsize, empty, mute Asians': 'Virtually Asian' video essay critiques portrayals of Asians in popular sci-fi

A video essay by artist Astria Suparak offers a visual critique of sci-fi and speculative fiction films that use Asian cultures as a backdrop and Asian people as props. According to the creators, the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

How Sci-Fi Films Use Asian Characters to Telegraph the Future While Also Dehumanizing Them

A new video essay by Astria Suparak, part of an art exhibition on A.I. at Oxy Arts, interrogates why science fiction films often depend on Asian cultures without centering them. By Evan Nicole Brown ...
Observer

EXPO Chicago Selects Renaud Proch and Astria Suparak as Special Section Curators, Launches Program for Off-Site Artworks

This just in: The International Exposition of Modern and Contemporary Art (EXPO Chicago), the three year old contemporary art fair, has selected Renaud Proch and Astria Suparak to be curators of the ...