Serena Kuo is a cinematographer, film/video artist, designer and co-creator of Studio Mercury, New York. In content, her work examines the construction of space and its manipulation of time, narrative, and rhythm. In form, she is inspired by street art, travel culture, and architecture.

Or vice versa.

Lifestream
  • trying to get rid of my last Dark Was the Night ticket, anyone? Selling at cost. Orchestra seat row F.

  • I am nothing without my friends.

  • WTF YYY no NYC?

  • Glasses feel weird after a day of not wearing them

CONTACT
serenakuo[at]studiomercury-ny[dot]com
Blog
Mental Rejuvenation

It’s been more than a year since I received my MFA from RISD. It’s been more than a year since I made anything that I’d consider “art.” By “art,” I’m not talking about an elevate form of work, by no means with a capital A. I’m also not degrading the work that I have been [...]

Fever Ray, “When I Grow Up”

While still highly anticipating Fever Ray’s album coming out in March, their second video, “When I Grow Up,” just came out of the grill today. It’s by Danish director Martin de Thurah, who also did Röyksopp’s music video for “What Else is There?” De Thurah’s visual style is a lot more fashion than of the [...]

A Real Quick Note

This is taking longer than I thought. And I already took into account that notion.
Let’s plan for the official opening of this website on Thursday, February 19th, 2009?

And so it is.

On January 1st, 2009, I blogged to the virtual server that housed this blog (when it looked completely different and layered with all sorts of conflicting codes), that a new version of this website has been redesigned.
Well. That was a little premature.
So on this completely arbitrary day, I present to you a new version of [...]