This site features selected works by Jen Goya / Jennifer Goya-Smith.

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  • Date
  • October 15, 2023

localhost

Jennifer Goyalocalhost, 2023Video Game localhost is a video game that sits on view ready to be played on a small computer that tells the story of a native culture stuck in perpetual conflict. The player uses a lehua flower offering to fight off consumers. Shell lei are dropped as bombs and put the player’s given …

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  • Date
  • April 13, 2021

Remember Lehua

Jennifer GoyaRemember Lehua, 2020Website When I was a child, I remember sitting cross-legged on the classroom floor as Kupuna Gora and Kupuna Wong shared songs, stories, and language lessons. Among them was the story of Pele and ʻŌhiʻa, a tale of love and loss. If you pluck the lehua blossom, they told us, rain will …

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  • Date
  • January 24, 2020

Remember the Time

Jennifer GoyaRemember the Time – https://bit.ly/rememberthistoo, 2019Computer Drawings, Websites, Interactive Graphics, Sound(6) 13 in x 19 in, (6) Websites, (6) Animated GIFs Memories are complex and the experiences one can recall with accuracy can sometimes be challenged and retold through another perspective that’s different and unlike their own. I find this divergence of viewpoints interesting …

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  • Date
  • January 22, 2020

She Didn’t Buy the Shirt

Jennifer GoyaShe Didn’t Buy The Shirt, 2017Website She Didn’t Buy The Shirt is a website that features interactive elements with a written account about an experience the artist had selling expensive t-shirts in Waikiki (Hawaii) when she was a teenager. The animations are paired with sounds to introduce a playful way to learn how to …

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  • Date
  • February 22, 2019

The Tree on Quincy Street

Jennifer GoyaThe Tree On Quincy Street, 2009Web: Image and Sound The Tree On Quincy Street is a series of photographs that documents tree types located on Quincy Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant/Bushwick in Brooklyn.  An audio recording is paired with each photo that describes the data I collected while photographing these trees in October 2009. You can …

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