Raqi Syed is a technical artist, filmmaker, writer and researcher with a background in studio animation. Her practice explores the materiality of light, hybrid forms of non-fiction and genre storytelling, and an anti-racist critical aesthetics of visual effects. She is a 2018 Sundance and Turner Fellow, and a 2020 Ucross Fellow. Syed teaches at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
Otherwise Worlding
Otherwise Worlding is 66-page e-book on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.
EMBODIED REALITIES
A conversation between artist Tanu Gago and filmmaker Raqi Syed on the occasion of Gago's participation in the exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds (2022).