yuka isabel
YUKA ISABEL is a digital media artist from Tokyo, currently based in Los Angeles.
She studies Media Arts + Practice & music industry at the University of Southern California.
Her interests include youth culture, ephemerality, memory, mundanity, maximalism...
She studies Media Arts + Practice & music industry at the University of Southern California.
Her interests include youth culture, ephemerality, memory, mundanity, maximalism...
/FEB 2024
/JAN 2025
/JAN 2025
"The Wilderness Downtown" by Chris Milk for Arcade Fire's "We Used to Wait" João Gilberto - In Tokyo (Spotify) "An Overdue Celebration for an Unruly Landmark of Feminist Art" by Anna Russell (The New Yorker) "All Apologies" by Eula Biss from Notes from No Man's Land "The History of the Music Video" by Polyphonic (YouTube) The Postal Service - Give Up (Spotify) Grimes - "REALiTi" (YouTube) The death of individualism in fashion by @likethenumber (TikTok) "Such Great Heights" sitar cover by @ronobirla (TikTok) Gorillaz - "Do Ya Thing (Full 13 Minutes Explicit Version) Feat. James Murphy & Andre 3000" (YouTube) Jouissance (Wikipedia) "Roland Barthes: Studium & Punctum" by Quinn Jacobson (Studio Q) "INDIE: THE INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF A POPULAR MUSIC GENRE" by David Hesmondhalgh (Taylor & Francis Online) Bildungsroman (Wikipedia) "Babygirl is a film about AI." by Emma Chang-Kredl (YouTube) "The Cult of Ignorance" by Isaac Asimov The Crown (Wikipedia) Conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (Wikipedia) "Perfumery disoriented, part 2: Orientalism & colonial aesthetics" by Clément Paradis (Nez) "Nothing is punk anymore..." by The House Of Tabula (YouTube) "I made maps that show time instead of space" by Václav Volhejn (YouTube) "I Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found" by adumb (YouTube) "Shoegaze Band Covers Fleetwood Mac On The Spot" by Musora (YouTube) "Countdown To EUSEXUA: FKA twigs in conversation w/ Imogen Heap | Spotify" by Spotify (YouTube) "Zack Fox - Elevator Music" by Elevator Music (YouTube) Mariya Takeuchi - "Plastic Love" (YouTube) David Lynch's Georgia canned coffee ad (Instagram) Bond Girl (Wikipedia) "You Think You Know Umami" by Hannah Goldfield (The New Yorker) Samba Classics Playlist (Spotify) "A Brief History of Graphics" by Ahoy (YouTube)
/DEC 2024
"End the Phone-Based Childhood Now" by Jonathan Haidt (The Atlantic) Divergent (Wikipedia) "the luxury of privacy & the celebrity vs. influencer paradox" by Mina Le (YouTube) "Literary and Artistic Metropolises" by Markian Prokopovych & Rosemary H. Sweet (EGO | European History Online) we should care about where the black shirt is from actually by @thatadult (TikTok) "How do lava lamps help with Internet encryption?" (Cloudflare)
/NOV 2024
Beatnik (Wikipedia) The Americans (Wikipedia) "The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Incredible Television" by Laura Kipnis (WIRED) Chelsea Manning (Wikipedia) "Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg" by Malcolm Gladwell "Slouching Toward La-La Land" by John Leonard (New York Magazine) "The Careless Language of Sexual Violence" by Roxanne Gay (The Rumpus) "The Performativity of Heteropessimism as Feminist Complaint" by Ellie Anderson (Post45) "On Heteropessimism" by Asa Seresin (The New Inquiry) "Narrative of Fragments" by Sarah Menkedick (The New Inquiry) "The Secret Gay History of Indie Rock" by Emma Madden (Pitchfork) Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles (Spotify) Satellite Lovers - Sons of 1973 (YouTube) "nosferatu vogueing" by Brendan Donnelly (YouTube) "Being One of the Only Black Actresses on Sex and the City Was a 'Surreal' Experience" - Yohana Desta (Vanity Fair) "Queer Theory 101: Paranoid and Reparative Reading" by Paging Dr. Lesbian (Medium) "The Limits of Defamiliarization: Sex and the City as Late Heterosexuality" by Stephanie Harzewski (S&F Online) Random Word Generator Ouroboros (Wikipedia)
/OCT 2024
/SEPT 2024
"The Trouble with Friends" by Weike Wang (The New Yorker) Teenage Bedrooms On Screen (Tumblr) "Teenagers and Their Bedrooms" by Kit Grauer (JSTOR) "3D Printed Form for Slip Casting - Clay Shrinkage and a Slip Well" by Pottery by Kent (YouTube) "Spike Jonze's Legendary Career | Epicly Later'd" by VICE (YouTube) Spike Jonze (Wikipedia) "The photographers who documented skateboarding’s roots at breakneck speed" by Charlotte Jansen (Wallpaper*) "FROM MY TO ME" by Olia Lialina (INTERFACECRITIQUE) "Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans" by John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke (Reuters)
/AUG 2024
/JULY 2024
/MAR & APR & MAY & JUNE 2024
(sorry)
/FEB 2024
Cyberfeminism Index "Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary" by Betsy Morais (The New Yorker) The Raconteurs - "Salute Your Solution" (Spotify) "WE’RE SIMILAR. WE’RE COMPATIBLE. WE’RE PERFECT." by Becca Young Bitch Mutant Manifesto "These Waves of Girls" by Dr. Caitlin Fisher