yuka isabel
YUKA ISABEL is a d1gital medi4 art1st from Tokyo, currently based in Los Angeles.
Recent graduate of the Media Arts + Practice program @ the University of Southern California.
Interests include youth culture, ephemerality, memory, mundanity, liminality...
Recent graduate of the Media Arts + Practice program @ the University of Southern California.
Interests include youth culture, ephemerality, memory, mundanity, liminality...
/APR 2025
Olfactory art (Wikipedia) Spice Chess (Wikipedia) "Just like drops in time, nothing" by Ernesto Neto (Escentric Molecules) Teddy Bear Elvis Presley Perfume (Rare Elvis) Aromajockey (ODO7) "Erich Berghammer reinvents the perception of scent as aroma jockey ODO7" (Orb Mag) Game of Thrones S8E3 "The Long Night" (Wikipedia) "Losing the Backup Fragments of a Fading Digital Memory" by Matilde Crucitti (Fakewhale LOG) Manqué (Wikipedia) Lack (psychoanalysis) (Wikipedia) Borromean rings (Wikipedia) Intertwingularity (Wikipedia) Tokyo Incidents - スポーツ (Spotify) "Understanding the Middle East's passion for pomegranates" by Indlieb Farazi Saber (Middle East Eye) "For-Profit (Creative) Software" by EndVertex (YouTube) "Things AI Will Never Understand" by Fractal Philosophy (YouTube) "The Controversial Rise of Rockstar Games" by Explorist (YouTube) "How David Bowie’s Blackstar Turned Death into Art" by Middle 8 (YouTube) Sweet Trip - Seen/Unseen (Spotify) "TouchDesigner Python Cheat Sheet for Developers" by Jack DiLaura (The Interactive & Immersive HQ) "Writing from the Vortex of War" by Muhammad Al-Zaqzouq (The Ideas Letter) "If you want to be creative, you can’t be certain" by Ida Persson (Medium) "Impostor syndrome" by Seth Godin (Seth's Blog) Apophenia (Wikipedia) David Rudnick The New Wave Of American Shoegaze by Eli Enis (Stereogum)
/MAR 2025
"State of The Dead Internet" by Jules (YouTube) "Metal Play" by makemebad35 (YouTube) Coconut Records - "Any Fun" (YouTube) "Being a Dickhead's Cool" by Reuben Dangoor (YouTube) "POOF! The Pop Show: Interview with Grimes" by WTULNOLA (YouTube) Blood Orange - "Champagne Coast" (YouTube) MGMT - "Time To Pretend" (YouTube) Chairlift - "Met Before" (YouTube) "The image you can't submit to journals anymore" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) Lenna (Wikipedia) "The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "Suspicions are swirling and Bell Labs is burning" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "How to lose a Ph.D in 127 pages" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "YOU NEED MATHEMATICAL LOGIC!" by citytutoringmath (YouTube) "How Reality TV Houses Are Built to Break People" by Stewart Hicks (YouTube) "Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Live in Buffalo, NY, 7/4/2004) [Official Video]" by Goo Goo Dolls (YouTube) Search Party S5 E3 "Kings" (IMDB) "How Betelgeuse Will Explode | How the Universe Works" by Science Channel (YouTube) "Real Images From Our Solar System" by Destiny (YouTube) "3D Nebulae and the Power of the Blender Community - Gleb Alexandrov" by Blender (YouTube) "nintendo frutiger aero chill mix 2025" by ninchrisu (YouTube) "Yoyaku instore session with Tomoki Tamura" by Yoyaku Record Store (YouTube) 香道 (Wikipedia) Smell: A Very Short Introduction - Chapter 6 "Smell in culture" by Matthew Cobb (Oxford Academic) r/todayilearned "TIL that making a purple pigment used to dye clothes for royalty in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome involved harvesting the pigment from rotting snails. The stench was so bad that Jewish law specifically granted women the right to divorce any husband who became a dyer after marrying." (Reddit) "Alan Alda Is Still Awesome" by Michael Schulman (Wikipedia)
/FEB 2025
"Human Hyena | 人類鬣狗" by Paul Gong "Everyone is horny now" by Emma Garland (Dazed) "The Math behind (most) 3D games - Perspective Projection" by Brendan Galea (YouTube) MIT Computer Graphics Group Lecture 6 --- 6.837 Fall '00 PDF (MIT) Treemapping (Wikipedia) "Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies" by Ben Shneiderman (HCIL Archive) Swizzling (computer graphics) (Wikipedia) "Blend Modes in Detail: 'Screen' Calculation" by InAffinity for Affinity Photo (YouTube) Lion (heraldry) (Wikipedia) Heraldry (Wikipedia) Tessellation (Wikipedia) "Do you need to be hot to make it as an artist now?" by Laura Pitcher (Dazed) Cyberpunk 2077 (Wikipedia) "A Meta Analysis of Video Essays" by _crustbag_ (YouTube) Principia Discordia (Wikipedia) Eris (mythology) (Wikipedia) List of musician and band name etymologies (Wikipedia) potayto, potahto (Wikitionary) Voyager Golden Record (Wikipedia) "Should We Keep a Low Profile in Space?" by Seth Shostak (New York Times) Balfua Interview (Stuck Magazine) "The Playlist: What is a VJ?" by EnterThePlaylist (YouTube) "VJing, Live Visuals & Creating Videos w/ Glowing Pictures (V Owen Bush + Benton-C Bainbridge)" by Dubspot (YouTube) "There Will Never Be Another Game Like Mirror's Edge" by Liam Triforce (YouTube) "Why is 'Choppy' Animation Better?" by Doodley (YouTube) "A Pop, Dip and Spin Through the History of ‘Pose’" by Sarah Diamond (New York Times) Bell, book, and candle (Wikipedia) Satiric misspelling (Wikipedia) Dysphemism (Wikipedia) Leet (Wikipedia) Enshittification (Wikipedia) "The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok" by Cory Doctorow (Dazed) "Wallace and Gromit : A Completely Serious Deep Dive by Joseph Fisher (YouTube) "Your Colors Suck (it's not your fault)" by Acerola (YouTube) "The Cult of the Dead Stock." by James Jani (YouTube) "The Men Who Promised the Impossible: Unlimited Energy" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "The Dead Grad Student Problem" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "The man who faked human cloning" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) "How to catch a criminal cloner" by BobbyBroccoli (YouTube) Broad City (Wikipedia)
/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
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/FEB 2024
Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu "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 (Blood Knife) Bitch Mutant Manifesto by VNS Matrix "These Waves of Girls" by Dr. Caitlin Fisher (The NEXT)