Award-winning animator, Dena Springer is an Asian-American animator and illustrator based in Chicago. Her work at once magnifies and reduces behaviours within groups, examining movements, and the divergent response to collective ideological structures between Eastern and Western perspectives. She uses vintage educational videos, antiquated instruction manuals, and old illustrations from children’s books to respond and challenge cultural definitions of role, gender, and identity. By borrowing from the rich animation tradition of the early 20th Century, she scrambles the distance between who we are collectively, individually, and what culture dictates to us about both.