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kayla (born in New York, NY) is an artist, performer and media arts educator who primarily makes interactive works for the desktop environment.
She is Archive & Program Manager at Rhizome and she teaches with SFPC.
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 assistant teaching for Todd Anderson's class "HTTPoetics" at SFPC
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I designed a 2026 wall calendar for Rhizome, featuring 12 works from Rhizome's ArtBase. Artists in the calendar include Michael Manning, Entropy8Zuper!, Animated Text, Paper Rad, Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Eva & Franco Mattes, Penelope Umbrico, Skawennati, Olia Lialina, Mouchette, Yoshi Sodeoka, and Nathalie Lawhead.
see some spreadz: February October
Three new works were accessioned to ArtBase to mark the occasion - Memories of Digital Data (2023) by Kazuhiro Tanimoto, Self-Portrait (2018) by Olia Lialina, and TimeTraveller™(2012) by Skawennati.
DJ for Transformers: Terminal YouTube upload party in Baltimore, watch the film here!
DJ for the closing reception of SMILER's show report from nori mountain
 assistant teaching for Todd Anderson's class "HTTPoetics" at SFPC
 Assistant Teaching again for Molly Soda's SFPC class Imperfect Pictures! June - Aug
 I taught a series of workshops about the solar web at elementary schools in NYC for rhizome. See the low-tech website I designed for the workshops here.
I participated in a collectively authored retelling of the 1929 film Man with a movie camera. My segment takes place entirely within the Desktop. It premiered at Onion City Film Fest in Chicago and also is screening at Spectacle (my favorite theater in the world) on June 1! Thanks to Blake for the invitation.
my website (you are here!) was included in The Internet Phone Book, a project by Kristoffer Tjalve + Elliott Cost.
I was a co-curator of the exhibition rhizome world which was on view at WSA for a month in NYC.
I organized the world premiere screening of Transformers: Terminal, a film by Miles Engel Hawbecker, that I also worked on, at Anthology Film Archives in NYC.
 "DJ cool groceries" Debut @ HEART for Extreme Animals: Should I Delete My Channel?VHS Tape Release show Listen to the full 2+hr mix here. Organized by Molly Soda.
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Poster for the Extreme Animals show at HEART in January
Spread for June, featuring work by Eva & Franco Mattes
Spread for July, featuring work by Penelope Umbrico
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I co-organized Rhizome's super ultimate internet day with Bri Griffin
Archive & Program Manager at Rhizome
Designed a webring badge for Rhizome's membership program (scroll down to the bottom of my website to see it)
Writing w/ Will Alstetter: "How to take a bad image"
I was invited to show a screenshot in the exhibition "Sacred Screenshots" curated by Maya Man at her new gallery HEART in soho. Thank u Maya for the invitation!
assistant teacher for Molly Soda's class "Imperfect Pictures" at SFPC June-Aug
Writing w/ Tyler Yin: "Dreaming of a Poetic Web"
New desktop game included in TXTbooks "Games for a Rainy Day" Special thanks to Nichole Shinn for the invitation.
work included in the The Net Gala, March 2 in NYC
 assistant teacher for Todd Anderson's class "HTTPoetics" at SFPC
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 mousepad from 2021 that i used in 2024 the main character, Charm from my latest desktop game |
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"My cursor looking at itself in the mirror" was included in "Homecoming" a group show at Public Works Administration, November 9-11. Special thanks to Theresa Tomi Faison.
Program coordinator at Rhizome
debut of My Cursor goes to Detention at Sara's World in NYC
program design for Scrap Yard Screenings, a 3-day moving image festival organized by Theresa Tomi Faison
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I made a website for Kalliopi Mathios. Make sure to have your sound on !
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 I made the album artwork for DJ Horrible's Peace Love World Clearance mix, which is a folder skin for macOS that can be downloaded + used on your desktop
My work was featured in Do Not Research's latest drop
Program assistant at Rhizome
I made the portfolio site for Rafhael Dungca. It is compatible on mobile
devices (and even works on Chrome 🤮!!) & features a custom Kirby Cursor that exhales whenever you click on a link
I taught computer classes at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.
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I was the Script Supervisor for the feature film Transformers (coming 2023)
Mousepad for Selma
I made the portfolio site for visual artist Kc McCarthy
 Drawings with Selma (click on thumbails) ------------------------------------------>
Check out the Instagram Dance Game (To play you must be on a mobile device with Instagram app downloaded 🤮)
I made a cloak for your Zoom Icon, which is available for free download in my Souvenir Shop
I made the trailer for the 31st Annual Onion City Film Festival,
I made a bumper for Screen Slate's online Screenings,
I made the portfolio site of Maia Liebeskind (no longer active, sorry!)
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I am continuting to build the souvenir shop & guestbook for kayla.world. (you are here)
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I released a line of 10 Mac/PC screensavers. Screensavers are available for free download, but you must take a personality quiz to determine which is right for you. View all screensavers I have made here.
I released a line of Designer, Knockoff Folder skins for Mac, shop the collection here.
I made the official website of Kira's 23rd birthday,"Happybirthdaykira.club" which was live for the Month of December. Now it is avaible to view on the wayback machine
I made a Breakbeat GPS mix for Maia's bike ride from Ridgewood to Park Slope.
I participated in Roundtable's remote Residency, where I created an
artware typeface for the desktop.
3 Cursor pieces were included in Decameron 7 at New Release Gallery curated by Monsieur Zohore
I made Screensaver Dance Party for Quarantv, a 45 minute long home shopping network style Advertisement for my Tech Services & Screensavers
Computer Science instructor at Code in the Schools
I opened my first solo exhibiton in Baltimore, Looping is Forever
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Cooking With Cherry, 2019
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 I made an Interactive, multiplayer desktop game for Mac called Cooking with Cherry.

Players communicate with the character ‘Cherry’ who is a python script, and use AirDrop to send and receive resources in order to cook a delicious meal
while also searching for a can of Raid to kill the bugs in the desktop. TBH this project has always been challenging to document, Here is a walkthrough
video explaining the game, Here is the script hosted on repl.it; Here is the project page where you can download the pieces and play the actual game.
or email me for more information
I made a scam email generator in Python, called Scam Libs
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This Row Is Dedicated to Quarantv

Quarantv was a public access live stream that was 24/7 for the first 1800 hours of the coronavirus pandemic
Bmore Art
The Wire
Instagram
Quarantv is Theresa Tomi Faison, Ellie Mac & Gillian Waldo
Read: A Brief and Accidental Window to Utopia by Theresa Tomi Faison
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Knockoff desktop folder skins for Mac OS (Ongoing)
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Will Alstetter
Todd Anderson
Bri Griffin
Isa Haid
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Celine Wong Katzman
Selma Lundstrom
Kalli Mathios
Sahiba
Will Schorre
Molly Soda
Molly Wurwand
Zichen Yuan
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I am available for commissions. Please contact me if you are ever in need of custom folder skins, special occasion websites
or screensavers, icons, desktop objects, dingbat fonts, collaborations, digital pranks or other inquiries
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