experimental instrument, 2025

This device helps you browse through a linguistic mapping of queer contact advertisements from On Our Backs, the first erotica magazine for a lesbian audience in the United States.

designed as a metaphorical dowsing rod in a shortterm residency, this device seeks to uncover and illuminate queer language, communication nuances, and historical modes of connection that have often been marginalized or overlooked in traditional archival and digital datasets.

made during residency at UmArts january 2025