Meyers creates animations to accompany the 8-bit music of various other artists. One would assume she creates her videos with Flash, but they simulate the 8-bit environments of old videogames and other kinds of historical computer animation. So Follow the Red Dots, for example, resembles the structure of a sidescrolling jumping game like Super Mario Brothers, here imagined with a pixellated version of Minnie Mouse, befriended by a talking red dot. The mouse’s questions to the dot ("Are U a decimal separator? Are U a full stop?") parallel the material indeterminacy of her images: we simply cannot not know if they were generated entirely by "hand" – that is, drawn digitally – or if an actual 8-bit system was used at any point of their making.

Raquel Meyers (Cartagena, Spain b. 1977) works with obsolete technologies like the Commodore 64, Teletext, typewriters or fax machines mixed with photography, animation and embroidery, among other techniques. She defines her practice as KYBDslöjd [mecanografía expandida] whose significance can be defined roughly as a manual skill with a keyboard. The keystrokes contribute to the execution, while poetry contributes to a system, through revealing the architecture of the raw and unadorned character sets. Her work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Yle Teksti-TV, ARDText, Transmediale, Xpo Gallery, La Casa encendida, Liste Art Fair Basel, P21 Seoul, la Maison des Auteurs Angoulême, BmoCA, SeMA NANJI, LABoral, iMAL, Piksel, Getxophoto, HeK, ETOPIA, Eufònic Urbà, MIRA Festival …