Angelique De Castro (she/they) makes mischievous characters out of clay and pixels. Their characters’ mythologies are shaped by the cross-sections of labor politics, queer/trans embodiment, and disobedient cultural narratives. De Castro typically co-creates with other artists whose practices are socially engaged or whose presence in their medium is underrepresented.
They are also a Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times engineering reader and editorial-facing news products.
Angelique is an alum of the virtual artist-in-residence program at the Asian American Art Alliance (A4). This interactive recipe commissioned for the celebration of Lunar New Year with A4 was kind of written up in The New York Times. They have worked with a jazz composer, a Grammy nominated jazz pianist, and a DJ to augment their live performances with animations. They were a technologist and animator for Decolonized Tarot, a psychic performance and Filipino mythology-inspired tarot deck. They were an illustrator for a zine that teaches algorithms at a middle school level with Paper Oranges (buying a zine helps us distribute the zine to teaching institutions for free!). They have coded and collaborated on a project about censorship that garnered backlash from the Chinese government. They have worked on a short film animation with a multimedia artist and activist about imagining a de-gentrified future of Sunset Park in Brooklyn. They have contributed a 3D animated interlude for the upcoming film Lyfe in a Strange Land. In the meantime, check out their interview with A4 and Google Arts & Culture ✨.
More links to their creative pursuits as a technologist, illustrator, and experimental 3D animator are below.
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