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Rachel Jackson is an artist, designer, and publisher based in Long Beach, CA.

Her practice involves the use of digital imaging, time-based media, and additive/subtractive technologies to create works that reflect evolving relationships within networked society.
On the Appointed Day, the Sun sets in the 
Notch Opposite the House of Worship,
 2024Hydrographic transfer of Adobe Stock granite texture image on polylactic acid 3d print with found image of false artifact

16 x 16 x 5”

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Techno Primitivism, Issue 01,
 2024
Styled as a pseudoscientific journal, Techno Primitivism examines manifestations of the ancient as they are mediated through contemporary technology. Issue 01 centers on evolving notions of “Anthropological Indexicality” as they relate to new imaging technologies, surveying how innate human pattern-making tendencies are interpreted through the lens of machines. Referencing the enigmatic symbology of petroglyphs, an essay accompanies a combination of found and constructed imagery, suggesting a pictorial lineage between antiquity and modernity

Risograph printed in light teal, fluorescent pink, yellow, and black inks on Cougar Natural 80t

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Sun Tablet 
(Replica of False Artifact recovered from Burrow’s Cave), 
2024
Silver leaf, PLA, 11 x 5 x 0.75”



Entoptic Phenomena, 
2024
    Single channel video, 4:05

Images of petroglyphs and rock textures are synthesized through machine intelligence and animated through prompts relating to “light touching upon a surface,” suggesting an evolving “false indexicality.”

      Film Excerpt



      Research Reader, 
      2024
        Full-color, 72 pages
        8.5 x 11” Perfect bound book

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      Collective Memory / Symbol Exchange, 
      2023
        Risograph ink, black thermography powder

        11 x 14”




      Inscription Canyon, 
      2023
      • Single channel video, 4:05

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            Life Begins (After Lorser Feitelson),
            2023            3D-printed representations of early television broadcasts, gray mirrored acrylic, polylactic acid

            15 x 20”







            Platform Artifacts,
            2022            CNC-milled MDF frames, Sintra, inkjet prints

            Set of 3 18 x 24” framed works






            Higher Source,
            2021             Higher Source by Brandon Bandy and Rachel Jackson catalogs sites which are the subject of crime scene, paparazzi, conspiratorial, and generally notable photographs. Using these historic images as a guide, this book archives what remains. Due to cover-ups or privacy concerns, these locations are often obfuscated. As structures are demolished, addresses are changed, land is cleared, and fences are erected, sites of tragedy and infamy disappear. Further complicating the process, sifting through information online becomes increasingly difficult, everything is ambiguous. Does the specificity of these images even matter, or is it about a photographic aura, constructing a specter of some real or fictional event?

            44 pages, Risograph printed in black and light gray duotone on Cougar Natural 80t, First Edition

            9 x 12” 

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