Submergene by Squidsoup
Submergence transforms the ROM gallery space into a Mixed Reality environment where virtual and physical worlds coincide. The result is an immersive walkthrough experience that uses light to alter our perceptions of space and presence.
Imagine walking through a virtual world, where pixels on a screen are replaced by thousands of points of light floating in space. These points of light create environments, atmospheres and movement in physical space. This is Submergence, a new project by digital arts collective Squidsoup. 8,064 points of light suspended in a physical walkthrough space measuring 8m x 4m and 4m high.
Submergence is the culmination of a five year research project exploring interactive media experiences that occupy physical space.
Texts from Dog - Imgur
This face is kind of familiar - Imgur
If Disney did Game of Thrones - Imgur
So I was cooking some bacon this morning….. - Imgur
This is the Promises Video with a different feeling. I couldn’t have slow music my heart just wouldn’t allow it so I played with multiple soundtracks and changes the video a bit. The song is called United We Stand Divided We Fall by Two Steps From Hell.
Hey classmates!!!! :D I would like to be critiqued on the Promises Original Video I feel that fit my original idea better.
Please watch in 720 quality :)
This video was created for my Drawing III class as a final project. It recaps the whole semester and all the projects we worked on.
The video opens up with three main artists. The first artist is a traditional artist, the second is a painter, and the third is a performance artist. The video is explaining the art projects of these three artist and the struggles they endure in the process. When created an art piece you are constantly critiqued from your peers or teachers telling you what they enjoy and what needs to be fixed. This is very frustrating when you as the artist have your mind set on one way and have to stray from it, but positive critiques can be very beneficial.
In order of appreance:
Ally is in a corner biting her nails figuring out what she wants to do in her head. She gets an idea and quickly rummages through a box to find a scroll. The tree on her back that is progressively growing symbolizes the artists becoming art and her journey through it as she grows. She continues to struggle with the 20ft scroll through-out the video.
Kelly the performance artist is struggling with the performance pieces. She does a sequence of events relating to balloons, string, and an inspiring piece from Kimsooja where she stands in one spot. She raps the string around the trees like the string project that was done in class.
Ally is working on a portrait with pastels when the black figure comes behind her and caresses her cheek. This signifies the personal relationship an artist may feel with their work. They are encouraged to keep going and work hard on it… but is there really a figure there? Or is it apart of her imagination. She is making promises, but to whom?
Then the tree keeps growing on her back showing her growth but Dany the painter falls out of frustration and exhaustion and behind her is the representation of art.
Dany takes her art piece and rips it but when it rips all you see is the art figure. Which in this scene represents an art critic or whatever the viewer wants to assume. This signifies the feelings that an artist may feel when being critiqued. Is the artist ripping the art themselves? Or is someone else doing it? Can someone negatively critique your art and the artist still like it or does that change the view of the artists as well? These are all left open ended.
Ally is then scene fighting with the figure. She is fighting with her art project. What she see’s is not there, there is no figure just her and her 20ft scroll on the wall but does this mean that it’s the inner mind she is struggling with that has manifested itself? but yet the art inside her (represented by the growing tree) is flourishing.
The scenes where the artists are ripping apart their art is the feelings all artists may get at times, they are frustrated with how it is going, the time they are given to complete it, and the critiques they may receive. We ask ourselves will we ever be good enough?
Dany slaps her hands down on the canvas and black paint hands come up to drag her in, she quickly pulls away and starts wiping them off. This is art slowly taking over the body taking part in everything we as artists do.
The art figure fighting Ally picks her up and throws her, she runs back to it but it isn’t there and she slams into her 20ft scroll. Was there ever something there or was she fighting the art in her head?
The artists push the figure back, denying its existence, and finally recognizing themselves as artists no matter what they produce, who critiques it, or what is said about it. They have over come every artists obstacle which, in the end is themselves. The tree is fully grown on her back representing her maturity in her art as an artist and the artists are scene looking at their final projects.
As an artist you are a creator of nothing, master of materials, and a hope for your generation. You take inspirations and make them visible to share. Not everyone will like every piece you make, but that doesn’t mean you can’t love them all.
The idea of drawing takes a literal sense in this performance. When I was thinking about doing something meaningful I thought of the most important thing to me which is my family and friends. When you are around other people the things you say and the things you due are taken in a different context, this doesn’t happen all the time but it can happen. When you have an effect on someone for the positive or negative you don’t always know. The markers represent the things I say and due. I direct them, tell them where to go, picked the colors and the order, but when I walked and turned around they designs on the paper were not what I wanted them to be. This picture is an incomplete representation of my performance because the picture does not tell my story but it gets the idea across. This performance represents human interaction and the uncontrolled feelings we all feel.
Memories
This project portrays the emotions and memories of how I felt in all my class rooms my sophomore and junior year. The memories I have of each class is the umbrella effect I throw over each subject. These are the classes and memories:
Picture 1: Math Class - I always felt frustrated learning math, it wasn’t my thing, never will be. Walking into that class every day was like walking into a wall, boring and going nowhere.
Picture 2: Branding - This is a class that I struggle with as well. When I think of the class and all the struggles I’ve had in it with the assignments I get this overwhelming flood of frustration. I produce some of my best work in this class room but at the cost of my sanity.
Picture 3: Design 1 - This class was pretty easy, very easy actually, and very laid back. I had already taken this class at my community college and found it east to coast through. I had a lot of fun memories and good times in that class so I wanted to portray a carefree spirt laughing.
Picture 4: Design 2 - This class I found very irrelevant. I made soap carvings and other things with toothpicks but nothing I would want to put in a portfolio. So I found the class to be… “meh” I have no good feelings and no bad.
Picture 5: Western Civ, Religion - Both these classes I found very interesting. I learned a lot every day and never wanted to miss class. The expression on my face is a thoughtful thinking look because it portrays the wheels turning in my brain with all the interesting knowledge I was gaining.
Picture 6: Drawing II, Drawing III - Both these classes have been at 9:00 am. My earliest classes I have had my two years attending Flagler. It doesn’t seem that bad, but when you get no sleep from all the homework you are assigned, 1 hour is a big difference.
Picture 7: Graphic Design I, Photography - These two classes I have always felt very successful going into and coming out of. When I turn my homework in I had fun with it and when I get my grade back I feel very accomplished. They were both classes that were laid back in class and very intense out of class.
These faces portray the emotions I felt while in the class rooms. They show the over all feeling I had in the class. If I were to walk into that classroom again I would have the same feelings rush over me that I felt when in the class. It’s amazing how memories work that way… so fresh.
My original idea was to have a friend dress up as cleopatra and then sketch her out in a detailed drawing but with only one day to execute the project I couldn’t get any models.
Drawing as Observation
The first challenge of our third project was to go out on campus and with the use of yarn show something that is there but possibly not visible to the naked eye. Maybe something that an artist sees that a regular everyday person does not. I was walking around campus… standing in the center of the busiest social spot during school and realized… no one is here. Yet I still saw the social groups that form when you walk through the quad. Over my should there would be the party group- saw each other at every party, skipped classes, what homework? Then in front of me would be the socially awkward group that only hung out in their own cliche. To my left would be the science group, then over in the far end would be the jocks that allowed sports to consume their lives. Then the goody too-shoes who were either the teachers pet or did every good activity on campus that was available. With the use of my yellow ball of string I wrapped the string around tables trees separating three tables. The three tables were supposed to represent three of the groups I mentioned. The string separated all three tables but essentially still were all apart of the same group- Flagler.
((it was really hard to see the string so all the pictures are close up to the string))
