MOTHER/ARTIST RESEARCHER WRITER
Do Not Upload
2025 - ongoinng
Video, colour
Press and features
- Storytelling for Change - Curated by Jess Crombie, AKO Storytelling Institute College, University of the Arts London
- The Central Saint Martins (CSM) Museum & Study Collection, Permanent Collection
Reviews:
“Do Not Upload is an intensely personal work that explores motherhood, ambition, and the Black female experience. Autoethnographic in its scope, it examines the story of self and how this intersects with the stories others cast upon us.”
– Jess Crombie, Senior Researcher in Storytelling for Change at the AKO Storytelling Institute
"This film is just the sweetest fever dream that both warmed and broke my heart. It perfectly captured those intimate moments of raising a young family, the repetition... but also the rituals, the colour, laughter. I loved the VO, the live reflection, and giving reverence to the tiny snapshots of joy throughout a day. Highly original and unique use of media."
— Karla Crome, Actress
"I LOVED how unique it was and refreshing to see the positive, messy, beautiful everyday moments of motherhood."
— Amy Jackson, Casting Director
"Mother / artist lets us into her world - it is not perfect, staged, well lit or dressed. It's real and it feels like going through a family album with a friend. Everything, from its name to an unscripted voiceover featuring her children, feels raw and intimate."
— Nikola Vasakova, Founder, Girls In Film
“Do Not Upload is an intensely personal work that explores motherhood, ambition, and the Black female experience. Autoethnographic in its scope, it examines the story of self and how this intersects with the stories others cast upon us.”
– Jess Crombie, Senior Researcher in Storytelling for Change at the AKO Storytelling Institute
"This film is just the sweetest fever dream that both warmed and broke my heart. It perfectly captured those intimate moments of raising a young family, the repetition... but also the rituals, the colour, laughter. I loved the VO, the live reflection, and giving reverence to the tiny snapshots of joy throughout a day. Highly original and unique use of media."
— Karla Crome, Actress
"I LOVED how unique it was and refreshing to see the positive, messy, beautiful everyday moments of motherhood."
— Amy Jackson, Casting Director
"Mother / artist lets us into her world - it is not perfect, staged, well lit or dressed. It's real and it feels like going through a family album with a friend. Everything, from its name to an unscripted voiceover featuring her children, feels raw and intimate."
— Nikola Vasakova, Founder, Girls In Film
Do Not Upload is an ongoing moving-image work that draws from diaristic video and written reflections to examine the pressures placed on marginalised people to perform visibility. The video engages with early video art and the algorithmic gaze. Through rhythm, glitches, pauses, and refusals, the edit becomes a site of lived theorising around Blackness, motherhood, class, and creative labour. The work navigates legibility, opacity, and self-surveillance, revealing the tension between speaking and withholding while insisting on the validity of mess, humour, tenderness, and contradiction.
SHANEIKA ASARE SIMMS
Shaneika Asare Simms is a British mother/artist, researcher and writer exploring motherhood, Blackness, and the politics of visibility across digital platforms through an autotheoretical approach.
Drawing on feminist theory, internet culture, and research-creation principles, she examines how marginalised identities navigate systems that demand performance, legibility, and disclosure. Shaneika uses moving image and YouTube as a democratised, algorithm-based distribution platform to ruminate on lensed theory, a term she coined to describe autotheoretical moving image practices that engage with the internet, communication, and visual culture. Her work utilises the edit as a method of thinking, refusing, and reclaiming agency.
She is based in London with a background in film and content production.
Central Saint Martins
Research Programme PhD
2026 - Present
Central Saint Martins
MRes Art: Moving Image
2024 - 2026
London College of Communication
BA (Hons) Media Practice
2012 - 2015
Teaching
Intro to Content Creation
SuperHi
Coming soon
Insight Summer School
A week-long introduction to filmmaking
University of the Arts, London
September, 2021
Speaker
Struggling to explain what you’re good at? Tell your story with confidence
Good Nugget
October, 2026
Artists-in-Conversation
London College of Communication
June, 2026
National Career Week
ScreenSkills
February, 2026
Young Creatives Q&A Panellist
Good Nugget
January, 2024
Career Cheat Guide for Professionals
Bloss.M
April, 2022
How to Build a Creative Biz
ILIKENETWORKING x The Floor
August, 2021
Change for Good: Social Enterprises from UAL Graduates
London College of Communication
February, 2020
Re:Generating Creativity Graduate Award 2026
Screenings & Features
Storytelling for Change
Do Not Upload Vol 1
Curated by Jess Crombie
AKO Storytelling Institute
CSM Museum & Study Collection
Do Not Upload Vol 1
Mother Act Film Festival, 2026
Do Not Upload Vol 1
November 13th 2026, BFI
BFI, Stephen Street
Under Review
The Good Rice Gallery, 2025