by Celeste Newcomb

Porous Futures reveals Florida’s queer microorganisms through a microscope lens that swells and shifts with tide data from Hurricane Milton (2024). Tide footage breathes inside the cellular imagery, while a dripping, self-replenishing aquarium anchors the installation below. The work imagines a porous, interdependent future shaped by water, kinship, and resilience.

Bio:
Celeste Newcomb is a multidisciplinary artist and educator exploring queer temporality, environmental entanglement, and digital embodiment. Shaped by the contradictions of Florida’s Gulf Coast and a long engagement with digital spaces as sites of becoming, their work spans video, installation, sound, and interactive media. Using their body as archive and instrument, they employ glitch and multispecies imagery to challenge legibility and build sensorial worlds of fluidity and interdependence.