Julianne Aguilar
is an artist, writer, and narrative designer. Her work is inspired by HTML1, unfinished and abandoned 100k+ word fanfics, weed, hell.com circa 1999, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide To The Wired World by Carla Sinclair, the 1999 Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Fragile, "Mother Earth, Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson, Elim Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, dying MMORPGs, gail.com, the 1996 first person shooter Quake, the two episodes of The X-Files written by William Gibson, translucent plastic electronics, the background art of Sailor Moon, the 1995 film Hackers and its many Vivienne Westwood looks, the episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine where Garak tortures Odo and realizes that he can't stomach doing that shit anymore but it's too late (the first part of this two-parter also contains the single most romantic scene ever filmed, in which Julian Bashir meets Garak in the airlock before he leaves to give him chocolates), the 1993 graphic adventure puzzle game Myst, physical spiral-bound Star Trek: Deep Space Nine slash fanfic zines from the 90s, and her cat Toki. She lives in Albuquerque.
She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico, and has presented works at Vancouver Art Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Festival Miden in Kalamata, Greece, The Athens Digital Arts Festival in Athens, Greece, and other traditional and non-traditional art spaces. She is a narrative designer in her professional life.
She can be contacted at julianne (AT) juliannes (DOT) website.
