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

Her practice involves the use of photography, time-based media, and imaging technologies to create works that reflect evolving relationships within networked society. 

Petroleum Seep (Tapo Canyon)
2025
Rubber sealant, polylactic acid 3D print, inkjet print of 35mm photograph 

12 x 16 x 3”






Techno Primitivism, Issue 02
2025
Styled as a pseudoscientific journal, Techno Primitivism examines manifestations of the ancient as they are mediated through contemporary technology.

Issue 02 concentrates on false archaeologies, namely the case of Burrows Cave, a purported site of ancient artifacts discovered by an Illinois prison guard in the 1980s. Featuring thousands of stone carvings and inscribed tablets, Burrows Cave provokes numerous questions about its creator’s agenda—is it an elaborate ruse catered towards the collecting market, an attempt at historical revisionism, or the prolific work of an outsider artist? Issue 02: False Archaeologies weighs the merit of investigating pseudo artifacts and the conspiracies that encircle them as a means of revealing latent cultural fears and ideologies.

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Mystic Cachet
 2025
Exhibition with Brandon Bandy at Rumpus Room
St. Louis, MO


Documentation & Press Release








Techno Primitivism,
 2025
Solo Exhibition at Weatherproof
Chicago, IL

Press Release

Documentation








On Harmonic Entropy,
 2024
Solo Exhibition at the University of California Riverside Phyllis Gill Gallery, October 2024

Documentation & Press Release







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.”

Link to Video

      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

            Film Excerpts








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

            15 x 20”