Diana Rojas:
Query
Video Projection
Query (2022), drawing its title from Isaac Newton’s 1704 book Opticks, is a single-channel video piece featuring rings of light, widening portals, clusters of stars, and movements of light and shadow. This piece utilizes abstracted imagery of the cosmos to engage with our environment and the idea of presence, serving as a reminder of the distance between humanity, the invisible, and the immense.
Bio
Diana Rojas is an interdisciplinary artist exploring human engagement with the invisible through installation, video, sound, and sculpture. Her work, influenced by philosophy, history, physics, and material science, examines technology's role in art as a catalyst for discussions about existence, consciousness, and metaphysics. Rojas's creations exist in both physical and virtual realms and have been exhibited and published nationally and internationally at venues such as the Fiesp Cultural Center, Dallas Contemporary, and the Yale Theater. She has received multiple OER Grants from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the 2023 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund Award, the 2022 Judson-Morrisey Excellence in New Media Award, and the Arrowmont Windgate University Fellowship. Originally from Mexico, Diana earned her MFA from the University of North Texas and is currently an Assistant Professor of Sound Art at the University of Texas at Dallas.