Rachel Efruss is a New York City–based designer and artist who uses digital and analog technologies to create multimedia art, video, and live visuals. Her work embraces imperfection through the deliberate inclusion of noise, glitches, and distortion. Using experimental filmmaking techniques and obsolete video equipment, she explores the creative potential of unconventional processes and materials. Her practice is driven by an interest in digital anthropology and the evolving relationships between technology, media, nature, and humanity.

Her design and art work has been shown internationally at venues and events including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York Fashion Week, Austin City Limits at the Moody Theater, dadaLab, Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs, Millennium Film Workshop, The Cinematheque, The Cinema Museum, and the Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art.

Her zine, published with the audiovisual art collective Wavefield, is in the research libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Experimental Television Center, Media Archaeology Lab, Mono No Aware, Vtape, and Signal Culture.

She also teaches art workshops and helps organize DIY events to support accessible arts education, community building, and creative experimentation.

Connect: hellostrangerays@gmail.com

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