The Archive houses older entries to the Feature Creep collection, as well as other projects related to its ever expanding body of works. This includes the ongoing 'Appendix F' project, which is a catalogue of existing works that fall within (or adjacent to) the Hypermodern Horror genre.
To find the most recent entries to the archive, visit the .Recent Posts. page.
.Appendix F..
[Community Project / Ongoing]
Appendix F is a list of existing media, (films, music, games, comics, novels, et al.) which fit within the Hypermodern Horror genre, even though few if any are categorized as such. This list is added to by the Feature Creep community over time.
.A Spell for Understanding Ooze:.
.Response to Pedro Gossler.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 03.20.2023 ]
A written response to the video work Ooze by Pedro Gossler. The article explores Gossler's piece through the lens of folk magic, with a contemporary digital bent.
.Ooze.
[ Pedro Gossler / 03.13.2023 ]
The final work to be included under the theme of Ghosted is Pedro Gossler's Ooze, a video piece which takes on the esoteric nature of contemporary existence, in a way which is as fun, ambiguous, strange and viscous as the title implies. A written response will follow next week, officially closing out Ghosted, so keep an eye out for that.
.Data There and Nothing More:.
.Doris Chu’s Search History.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 03.13.2023 ]
A micro essay, written in response to Doris Chu's work, Search History, which takes on the gothic ghost tale and its preoccupation with lost love through the contemporary lens of digital platforms.
.Search History.
[ Doris Chu / 03.06.2023 ]
This week's addition under the theme of Ghosted comes from Doris Chu. Their work, Search History, presents us with the lingering online traces of a relationship, now fallen apart. Dealing with loss, memory, and the ways in which our endlessly archived and digitally backed up world can come to haunt us, (or allow us to haunt our own pasts) Search History is more mournful than spooky; evoking the gothic and its preoccupation with lost love, while still remaining absolutely contemporary.
.Soft Dystopias:.
.Gina D'Aloisio’s Branded.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 02.27.2023 ]
A written response to Gina D'Aloisio's sculptural work, Branded, in which both the contemporary and speculatively dystopic implications of the work are explored. Branded has more of the hauntological than the literally haunted to it, bringing some added depth to the theme of Ghosted.
.Branded.
[ Gina D'Aloisio / 02.20.2023 / Silicone, tattoo ink, underwear / 14” x 12” x 8” ]
Branded, a sculptural work by Gina D'Aloisio, is the latest addition to the archive under the theme of Ghosted. Unlike the last two works within this theme, Branded takes a far more materially driven approach; delving into body horror, but with an eye towards parody as well. The work explores the ways in which online interactions leave their traces everywhere, including both on our bodies and identities. At the same time, Branded also acknowledges how we are driven to delve deeper (both consciously and unconsciously) into social media, spurred on by both necessity and the spectres of who and what we could potentially be there.
By tattooing her own online handle onto a true-to-life silicone replica of her body, D'Aloisio plays with the notion of personal branding, as well as the current revival of the “tramp stamp,” (itself a ghost of y2k nostalgia) while firmly pointing the finger at herself as someone who is not immune to the toxic cycles of online presence. Both funny and self-reflective, and realized through stunningly lifelike body replication worthy of Rick Baker or Tom Savini, Branded is a worthy addition to the archive which evokes a bit of camp body horror while still having something worthwhile to say.
.Empty Threads:.
.Sarah Boo's Virtual Spectres.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 02.13.2023 ]
A response to the second addition under the theme of Ghosted, Sarah Boo's video piece Virtual Spectres. This week's entry looks at Boo's work, and seeks to understand the grim warning which it represents.
.Virtual Spectres.
[ Sarah Boo / 02.06.2023 ]
Our latest archive entry under the theme of Ghosted is another fantastic work by Sarah Boo, titled Virtual Spectres. The spook factor is cranked up even higher than in Zoom Princess, so prepare yourselves for a wild ride with this one.
.Cross Dissolve:.
.Morris Fox's Night Ritual.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 01.23.2023 ]
A written response to last week's archive entry, Night Ritual by Morris Fox, in which the nature of digital ritualism is considered.
.Night Ritual.
[ Morris Fox / 01.16.2023 ]
The first entry into the archive under the theme of Ghosted comes from Morris Fox. Night Ritual is a video work which layers 3D animation with music and (synthetic) spoken word to produce a delirious, occult experience, harkening back to earlier, more authentic digital aesthetics. Equal parts ecstatic, mournful and witchy, this one is best enjoyed by moonlight.
.Theme Announcement:.
.GHOSTED.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 01.09.2023 ]
Announcing our new Theme for the next two months. Ghosted will take a look at all things ghostly, supernatural or hauntological within a hypermodern, digital context. New works will be added starting next week.
.The Last of the Spirits.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 12.25.2022 ]
This weeks addition to the archive is a quick little holiday haunt. A contemporary retelling of the climax of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas ghost story, in which Scrooge is presented not with the horrors of his own personal future, but rather the future that he and those like him have wrought upon the world.
.Blue Idol:.
.Sarah Boo's Zoom Princess.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 12.12.2022 ]
An essay written in response to Sarah Boo's video piece Zoom Princess.
.Zoom Princess.
[ Sarah Boo / 12.05.2022 ]
Our next entry for the theme of COVID Suspenstories is a digital video piece by Sarah Boo, titled Zoom Princess. Turn down the lights and throw on some headphones for this one, and be ready for a bit of a trip. An accompanying essay will be coming out next Monday, so check back for that.
.Anxiety & Persona:.
.Mortimer, Be Quiet's Close Quarters.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 11.28.2022 ]
A written response to the music video for Close Quarters, by Mortimer, Be Quiet.
.Close Quarters.
[ Mortimer, Be Quiet. / 11.21.2022 ]
The first entry into the archive under the theme of COVID Suspenstories comes from Mortimer, Be Quiet. Also the first musical addition to Feature Creep, Close Quarters will have you feeling like the walls are closing in. An accompanying essay will come out next week, so keep an eye out.
.Theme Announcement:.
.COVID Suspenstories.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 11.07.2022 ]
Announcing our new Theme for the months of November and December! COVID Suspenstories will feature works which explore not only the pandemic itself, but also all of the anxieties, inequities, systemic failures and social fault-lines which it exposed. Follow the link above to read more.
.Introduction to the Necropastoral.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 10.31.2022 ]
As a special Halloween inclusion to the archive, we present an intorduction to the Necropastoral, a theoretical and aesthetic lens which offers unique perspectives on the horrors of the world-of-the-now. Come crawl amongst the bones and worms, and open your mind to deathly revelations.
Special thanks to Morris Fox for inspiring this work.
.Strange Relations:.
.Adrienne Scott's Character Studies.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 10.24.2022 ]
A written response to Adrienne Scott's animated work Character Studies, featuring a score by Jess Tsang.
.Character Studies.
[ Adrienne Scott with Jess Tsang / 10.24.2022 ]
Scott's entry into the archive is an animated work which makes use of both natural and human-made found objects. While non-narrative, the work uses these objects to explore contemporary material relations, bolstered by the evocative and sometimes haunting music from their collaborator Jess Tsang.
You can read a statement by the artist |here|.
.Excerpt from The World of Dorian Gray.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 10.17.2022 ]
A contemporary retelling of the final chapter of Oscar Wilde's classic macabre tale, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In the original work, a young man is gifted a portrait of himself; one which ages in his stead, and which bears the physical signs of his debauched and excessive lifestyle. In this retelling, we see not the individual degradations of such a life, but instead their impact on the world at large. Read on to witness the horrors that are wrought upon our once pristine globe by the machinations of the wealthy and the beautiful.
.Strange Biomes:.
.Lingxiang Wu's Digital Landfill.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 10.10.2022 ]
A written response to Lingxiang Wu's Digital Landfill, which explores both the liberating potentials and alien threats of Wu's ongoing interactive work.
.Digital Landfill.
[ Lingxiang Wu / 10.10.2022 ]
Wu’s inclusion to the archive is an ongoing interactive online work which seeks to retaliate against the “aesthetic of the smooth,” the dominant aesthetic (and methodology) of the contemporary internet. It does so by creating a uniquely digital landscape, populated with all of the jagged edges and refuse that neoliberal capital seeks to remove from the net, in order to perfect it as a conduit for maximal social and monetary gain. The vistas which Wu gives form to are simultaneously alien and all too familiar, and seek to lead the viewer on an exploration away from the digital-as-consumption.
.Material Thinking on Material Excess.
.Michelle Cieloszczyk’s Oxidized Macbook.
[ Adrienne Scott / 10.03.2022 ]
A written response to Michelle Cieloszczyk's Oxidized Macbook, also found here in the archive. This biref essay meditates on the nature of Cieloszczyk's piece, and its implications within a contemporary/hypermodern context.
.The Archeologist.
[ _feature_creep_team_ / 10.03.2022 ]
A work of flash fiction (fiction around 1000 words or less) which draws direct thematic and visual inspiration from Michelle Cieloszczyk's Oxidized Macbook, also found here in the archive. For maximum effect, please view that work before reading.
.Oxidized Macbook.
[ Michelle Cieloszczyk / 10.03.2022 ]
The first official entry into the archive, Michelle Cieloszczyk's piece is a sculptural exploration of a ubiquitous contemporary device, looking at themes of waste, objectness and the materiality of our contemporary world.