The Pointer · Ryan Kuo

The Pointer explores the construct of whiteness and its involvement in technological aesthetics and productivity. Ryan Kuo created three commissioned software works that examine whiteness as a structural, ideological, embodied, epistemological, and phenomenological mode of being — referencing philosopher George Yancy. The works materialize whiteness through recursive sequences and systems rather than prescriptive solutions, using software platforms like Keynote, macOS applications, and video-game engines as both medium and subject.