I, Daughter of Kong Center for Research (IDOKCFR) is an exercise in imagined science, revisionist history and journalistic chicanery. It is a gesture of resistance to the marginalization of social and political discourse and the increasingly isolating homogeneity of popular culture. IDOKCFR is the creation and elaboration of a new iconic image, a springboard for artistic inspiration, personal interpretation and independent thinking. The project is an ongoing collaboration between four far-flung, formerly San Francisco-based artists: Cynthia Mitchell (Montreal, Canada), Amy Hicks (Philadelphia, PA), Anjali Sundaram (Bozeman, MT) and Lara Allen (New York, NY).

Since 2009, we have conceptualized and organized four thematic IDOKCFR shows and participated in several group exhibitions and screenings. These include Co-Lab Projects, Austin, Texas; Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia; Pixilerations [v.9], New Media Fringe Festival @ First Works & Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Cinema By the Bay, San Francisco Film Foundation, San Francisco, California; UD @ The Crane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Big Muddy Film Festival 34, Carbondale, Illinois; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California; Inquiry Toward the Practice of Secular Magic, Co-presented by Los Angeles Filmforum and the Disembodied Theater Corporation, piXel + freQuency, Los Angeles, California; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, New York and The Lab, San Francisco, California. Representatives of the Center for Research have also presented and/or spoken at conferences including International Workshop on Democracy’s Non-Human and Non-Living “Others” with the Authority Research Network in New York and the University Film & Video Association Conference in Bozeman, MT.

We have collaborated with over 60 professionals working in a variety of fields including the visual arts, music, performing arts, psychology, philosophy, film, acrobatic arts, and law.