Rodell Warner By these shores I was born On view until this Saturday 21 March Image 1 and video extract from Artificial Archive: Carnival Fictions - H0M3_2126—Monday, 2026 Single-channel video with sound 20 minutes 0 seconds loop Image 3 : still from Artificial Archive: Carnival Fictions - H0M3_2126—Tuesday, 2026 Single-channel video with sound 20 minutes 0 seconds loop #yartgallery #ygallery #trinidad #exhibition #rodellwarner

one in the morning tahjia making pictures with me

Text-to-image pictures for “Artificial Archive - H0M3 2126”. The video work I made using images like these is on show now at @yartgallerytt in the exhibition “By These Shores I Was Born”, curated by @drmarshapearce

y’all, my absolute dearest friend and i just got married on sunday <3<3 and it did feel like the first snow of the winter fell just for us on our wedding day. my relationship with tahjia has been important to me from our first conversation, and over the years we’ve known each other they’ve been hugely influential in my life. tahjia’s poetry makes me ambitious. when i say “i’m not a poet but i need to be”, that’s me saying “i wish i could do with words the kinds of things that tahjia does”. the way tahjia’s thoughtfulness manifests as gentleness is the beauty standard of intelligence that i strive for and judge all interactions by. they’re also easily the funniest person i know :] i’m humbled to be chosen by them. we’ve been so thankful for everyone’s best wishes over the last couple days <3<3 thank you <3<3

These Artificial Archive prints are available ✨🖼️✨ 1️⃣✨ 10 Single-edition prints 😫✨ Gorgeous! (photos do not do them justice!) 📏✨ 11 inches x 17 inches 🖨️✨ Archival prints ✍🏾✨ Signed & numbered (1/1) at the back 🤳🏾✨ DM if interested - I want you to have them! 🔬✨ Swipe to the end for close-ups/details 🖋️✨ Pen included for scale and color comparison More about Artificial Archive at rodellwarner.com/Artificial-Archive

Here’s one minute of Hallucination 04 from my Artificial Archive: SCRYING INTIMACIES video series, along with a few stills from the video. ✨🔗Link in bio to see the full 10-minute work online in Debox, an exhibition by virtual net art gallery @public.access.memories . You’ll really want to watch on the biggest screen you can find, with surround sound speakers or whatever you have. Here’s an excerpt from the exhibition text from the gallery’s gorgeous interactive site at publicaccessmemories.com “This show features projects that engage with dataset creation, especially those that center personal archives, underrepresented communities, or alternative knowledge systems. This includes memory work—acts of documenting, preserving, or resisting erasure through data”

“Ghosts of Internet Archive” is online (link in bio). This interactive website is mobile friendly and is extra fun on your laptop or desktop ✨💻✨ 🔗 ghosts-of-internet-archive.rodellwarner.com @internetarchive has officially archived one trillion webpages 😳 and to celebrate they’ve partnered with @grayareaorg to commission web-based works that engage with the archive’s vast holdings. I’m a huge fan of the Internet Archive, so this was a pleasure to create. Massive thanks to curator @habitualtruant for inviting me to be a part of this! The sound you hear in the screen-recording in the first slide is “Rainbow in Curved Air” by Terry Riley. It’s not a part of the work, just highly recommended musical accompaniment ✨🎧✨ Check out the project description from the exhibition text below, and visit the address below to learn more about the exhibition: 🔗 grayarea.org/exhibitions/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/ Ghosts of the Internet Archive (2025) Rodell Warner In this interactive net.artwork, artist Rodell Warner developed a generative web application that creates “ghosts” from scattered digital materials across discarded blogs from the Web 1.0 era, now contained within the Internet Archive. Each digital asset has been excavated from someone’s personal page, which the artist spent days pouring over and selecting intimate fragments from. Through a serendipitous, algorithmic process of recall from this highly curated dataset, Warner forces the found content to overlap and occupy the same display area. Ephemeral phantasms from a lost era of the web float across the page, conjuring an eerie feeling of looking through the veil of digital life and death. Ripped out of their original contexts, a bygone era of visual culture, the results of this experiment create connotations and connections, both intentional and unintentional, on each of media artifacts in the mind of the viewer. In this way, Warner invites audiences to consider the visual legacy of the Archive collection and its lasting impact on cultural memory.

Emerging Exits is open again this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Book your timeslot via the link in our bio (only a limited number of tickets available) to visit the monumental Diogenes Bunker in Arnhem, where time slows down and other perspectives come into view. The Trinidadian artist Rodell Warner @rodellwarner is showcasing his work in Emerging Exits. Rodell Warner works primarily in new media and photography. Rooted in an exploration of race, nature and technologies of representation, the artists’ practice draws upon personal and institutional archives to rethink the past, and on digital processes to index emancipatory futures. Experience Rodell Warner’s work in Emerging Exits - on view until November 2, 2025. Rodell Warner is also featured in Embodied Encryption - an exhibition at our partner @platform_post in Arnhem. Embodied Encryption explores how bodily freedom and justice for oppressed groups can be pursued without turning away from artificial intelligence. On view until December 14, 2025. 📷 design by @st.duo.design and photography by @aadhoogendoorn #rodellwarner #emergingexits #stichtingschuilstad #diogenesbunker #exhibition #immersiveexhibition #platformpost #embodiedencryption

@emerging.exits just opened in a gargantuan WWII-era German command bunker in the forest in the Netherlands and there’s a dark corridor in there where one of my Artificial Archive video works is installed. There are a lot of works there I wish I could see in person. If you’re anywhere near Arnhem definitely go see this show. It’s open until November 2 and after that the bunker is permanently closed. Huge thanks to @marijnbril and @sjakoo for inviting me to be a part of this strange and timely exhibition, and congratulations to them for pulling off something so extraordinary. Thanks to @liekew0uters for connecting us! This is not the same exhibition I mentioned in my last post. If you’re near Arnhem you can see them both ✨

Embodied Encryption, curated by @liekew0uters , is open in Arnhem until December 14 at @platform_post and includes a selection of images from my Artificial Archive. Artists: Ada Ada Ada, Morehshin Allahyari, Jake Elwes, Beverley Hood, Rodell Warner “…Bodily vulnerability, anti-colonial depictions of the past, and subversive joy are addressed in Embodied Encryption. The work in the exhibition shows feminist, queer and anti-colonial perspectives on identity, despite and thanks to AI.” ✨📷✨ Exhibition photos by Django van Ardenne @djangovanardenne Press kit & full details at www.platformpost.nl

Floored by these photos by Catherine Sforza @sforzamedia courtesy of @ttfilmfestival . Swipe to the last frame for end-of-game visuals. I’ve been Talking about this work so I have plenty words now: Las’ Lap Afterlife is a performance commissioned by the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in which the audience is presented with archival material as an immersive experience, and invited to interact with that material via a large red button installed in the gallery (@medullaartgallery ). The button dramatically changes what’s being displayed. The audience is accompanied in this by a large white bat (part of Carnival tradition) whose expansive wings and human body become part of the screen they view the archive on, and who acts as a bridge between the ephemeral digital & the living collective gathered to experience it. The images are served randomly by a web application that selects and collages them in real time. The title ✨🪦✨Las’ Lap Afterlife🎉 refers to the “last lap”, the end of the Trinidad Carnival procession - the final go around when you know it’s the end - and it imagines the retrospective moment as a kind of conflation of the last lap and the afterlife.. a special situation in which looking back with 20/20 hindsight and unprecedented self-awareness becomes possible only because everything is finally finished happening Many of the archival images that appear refer to the history of Trinidad & Tobago’s visual life, including brand marks, memorabilia, recognizable ephemera, architectural motifs, & artworks (mostly mine, but also ‘ghosts’ of familiar works by Trinidadian artists). They’re meaningful pictures from the country’s past, presented alongside contemporary artworks in order to assess associations between these categories, & to catalyze conversation about the visual legacy of the place I describe the images as ghosts because they’re not rendered in their original full-color, or 2D, or still formats, but instead as white, animated, semi-transparent, lower-resolution versions - ghosts of the originals. The images on display are all ghosts of other images These photos document a ceremony in which these ghosts are called up for collective reflection

📽 The TTFF/25 New Media programme premiered a newly commissioned work by Trinidad and Tobago artist, Rodell Warner. The work, 'Las' Lap Afterlife', which presented archival imagery collected by Warner over the previous 15 years, was curated by Melanie Archer and included performance collaborators Nickolai Salcedo and Kibwe Brathwaite. Projection mapping was handled beautifully by North Eleven. . The performance was visually and sonically arresting, and the gathered audience members were enthralled by the work. . 📽 The TTFF/25 New Media programme was made possible thanks to the support of: @centralbanktt @medullaartgallery @north_eleven . 📷 Photographs by Catherine Sforza .......................... 📆 TTFF/25, 24-30 September at One Woodbrook Place 🌐 To find out about screening times, dates and venues, please visit the 'What's on' page of our website /event/ 🎟 Tickets for regular screenings 👉 cinema box offices . 🎥 TTFF/25 is made possible with thanks to our amazing sponsors, partners, collaborators and volunteers! . SUPPORTING SPONSORS: Ministry of Trade and Tourism/ @globaltrinidadandtobago Fernandes Foundation . PRIMARY VENUE PARTNERS One Woodbrook Place @cinemaonetrinidad . PROGRAMME PARTNERS @bocaslitfest @c15studios COSTATT Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago High Commission for Canada in Trinidad and Tobago @medullaartgallery The Frame Shop V-Tape .......................... #TTFF25Gala #sisternancybambam #magicmoments✨ #TTFF25 #TTFilmFestival #CaribbeanFilms #CaribbeanFilmmakers