ELO 2017 conference

Material Studies is a series of videos that engage the viewer in a synesthetic experience. The work is a poignant act of resistance against the meat industry. It proposes vegan and feminist perspectives of our embodiment of reality. Witty poetry meets “networked vegan edible language sculptures,” says Claire Donato. The studies are based on a work-in-progress titled “Gravity and Grace, The Chicken and the Egg, or: How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.”

(source: https://conference.eliterature.org/sites/default/files/ebook_elo17_fina…)

"Nightmares for Children" is a found-footage virtual reality installation with a fractional backbone and original soundscape created for Oculus Rift with touch. The viewer will be inmersed in 360 video with VR assets and 2D video overlays and will navigate through a series of dreamy horrors in different emotional registers using the intuitive Oculus touch interface. The piece allows for a very small child's voice and infant storytelling to sound fully, but at the same time is crafted as a mediattion on the imagery in children's dreams and what it might trigger in the adult imagination. 

This artwork realized as a physical installation invites participants to explore how decisions can change a character's biography. The participants engage with the piece by physicallly interacting with objects and locations, creating a sensory experience. Inspired by motives from the life of media theorist and philosopher Walter Benjamin, the work is simultaneously an exploration of history, throught the lens of an individual character. The many junctures in his biography open up a space for speculation (what would have become of him if he had taken a different turn? What would have happened as a consequence?)