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 young child, I fondly remember Kupuna Gora and Kupuna Wong would gather us on the floor in my classroom at Ma’e Ma’e Elementary. We would learn songs and have language and culture lessons every week. I remember listening to the unrequited love story between Pele and ‘Ōhi’a. …

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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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