<2

<2 (Less Than Two, 2000-2001) is a video performance work rooted in my 1998 speculative fiction narrative The Story of Sister Gemini, featuring a cyborg princess—half AI, half mixed-lineage human—navigating the monocultures of a corporatized, tech-saturated world. Suffering from amnesia and haunted by ancestral memory, Sister Gemini becomes both muse and hacker, singing techno-folk ballads that blend Appalachian melodies with poetic commentary on internet culture, data identity, and digital loss. In this video, I perform as Sister Gemini, through composited video and early 3D animation, within a stylized “web TV” broadcast, shifting through costumes and personas until dissolving into code—metaphorically “hacking” websites through Quicktime video interfaces.


Through Sister Gemini’s fragmented, polycultural voice—what I referred to at the time as “illegitimate and bastardized”—the work embraces hybridity and digital diaspora. Referencing early internet aesthetics, performative avatars, and feminist sci-fi archetypes, <2 (Less Than Two) channels both longing and resistance. I position the virtual performance not only as a form of expression, but as a subversive survival tactic—singing into the void of the algorithm while refusing erasure.


Studio Acknowledgements
Voice & Music: Julia Frodahl/Edison Woods & Wax Sound Design Studio 
Production & Design Assistance: Andres Sanchez