Choose Your anceStory™

Choose Your anceStory™ is a web-based work of interactive fiction, intended as a meditation on the performative nature of ancestral identity. Inspired by Karen Barad’s agential-realist framework, 1970s TV-play Penda’s Fen, and the artist’s recent encounter with commercial DNA testing, Choose Your anceStory™ is a computational narrative thought-experiment.  The piece invites its audience to conside…