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Art Avant Garde Cinema Time Travel With Dr. Mojo Video Tech and Timothy Leung

October 6, 2021 Alizarin Zroob

Cinema is the art that transcends time more so than any other medium. Potentially, It also has the most influence on humanity than any other art form. While mainstream cinema conforms to standards that yield commercial success, avant-garde cinema is testing the boundaries of the medium to make sophisticated statements or provide transcendental experiences. A kind of avant-garde cinema that captivated my heart thanks to it’s hypnotizing nature, is VJing. A merger of visual and audio into large scale video sculptures with the aim to create immersive environments for people to gather to dance, meditate, socialize and take in the…

ITP Gender Morph

November 14, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

For this week at Performative avatars, we’re learning about gender. Parallely, we’re morphing our freshly-scanned avatars to perfect and smooth them. The morphing was some sort of a sick gender-transition, as the example model we were morphing ourselves into, was clearly a male. Totally different than my body mesh! I could literally see myself morphing from a dude into the good-old female self. Felt somewhat biblical. Ummm… no. A bug in the system pulled my mouth-sack out of my facehole, giving me this stylish goatee: That called for a round of replacing the dots and wrapping again, proccess that took…

ITP Sacred Temple of Cerebral Femininity

November 12, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

Femininity themed immersive environment by AlizarinZ Using light art and unexplored forms of visual interactivity to invite a performative ceremony celebrating the cerebral aspects of femininity Encrypted figurative art to be explored and revealed with uniquely designed light sources and sound reactive projectionAdditional layer of information and interaction is revealed via a simple web interface + QR codesThe visuals are inspired by women inventors who shaped today’s technology and science synesthesia light art following up the previous synesthesia light art, I’m devoted to extend my cryptic, sound and blacklight-reactive style into an entire immersive and interactive experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89FYlMwyvY The upcoming iteration…

ITP Full Body 3D Scans

November 7, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

Experiment 1 My previous experiment with scanning a human using a depth kit did not go well. An attempt to scan a beautiful model wearing a lovely puffy dress and an intricate headpiece deemed to be unsuccessful. The unusual elements have made it impossible for the auto-rigger to recognize my model is a humanoid at all. I’ve found myself with a beautiful object instead. Nice, but I couldn’t animate it like I wanted. Eventually I ended up using boring old 2D video format for prototyping the AR experience Fewture 1: Glitter Shores. Experiment 2 I’ve arrived ready for my fresh…

ITP Avatar Experiments

October 31, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

Alizarin in physical reality The profile picture I use since 2015, taken by photographer Gilad Kfir A collection of avatars flickr profile pic from 10 years ago Acrylic Painting + Collage A self portain rather than avatar, painted about 10 years ago and still kinda current. Mixamo + Fuse Avatar of self that was included in an original VR experience, Fewture 2 Mii Avatar Cartoonify Avatar Lego Avatar Delusional crime and punishment >

Art Sqoosh Farms Art Toy Series

October 22, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

Original art toy design by @AlizarinZ and an entertainment conglomerate format https://youtu.be/GtkRVgtHL90 3D printed in collaboration with @_insta_yaya The making of, on instagram View this post on Instagram Meet the Sqoosh-farmer’s son! Art toy design process, from pencil sketch, through my first attempt in #3D modeling in #Sculptris, then printing on an #ultimaker. #arttoyitp #arttoy #arttoyculture A post shared by Alizarin Zroob (@alizarinz) on Oct 6, 2019 at 5:08am PDT View this post on Instagram Lucy the #goat, satisfied after a good sneaky feast of Sqoosh! Original #art toy design, a 3rd member of the #sqooshfarms series! In a new…

Art Alizarin Artist statement 2019

October 9, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

AlizarinZ is a visionary artist and art director based in Queens, New-York. Born in the crumbling former Soviet Union and raised in conflict-stricken Israel, her work is a rebellious act of positivity against a turbulent existence. Alizarin incorporates classic visual art techniques with new media like projection mapping, 360° videography and VR to transform environments and speculate alternative realities. Being devoted to nature, the materials Alizarin favors are either virtual, recycled, or organic – such as mushroom molds and living plants. Alizarin’s rich aesthetic is easily recognizable for bright, intense, warm colors, with a signature palette of pinks and reds,…

Art Meditation Tunnel

October 9, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

High Zen VR experience by Alizarin Zroob Step into the Meditation Tunnel: a mind-bending, hypnotic, exhilarating experience that pushes beyond the boundaries of VR. Meditation tunnel suggests a digital, new-age, New-York, cerebral approach to guided meditation. Meditation Tunnel as presented at ITP’s Spring show 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=324gLOtJhwE The intended way to ride the Meditation Tunnel is via a customized VR headset, while seated on a unicorn in a magical transformative environment. While the main pinnacle of the Meditation Tunnel happens within the headset, it’s certainly not limited to it. Enhanced with projection art, custom-made headset and glitter-icious set design, Meditation Tunnel…

ITP Making Media Making Devices

September 19, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

For one intensive weekend with professor Matt Richardson, a class of ITP nerds had the chance to get familiarized with the tiny, trendy Raspberri Pi computer and some of it’s applications in making media-making devices. Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi is a small affordable computer (starting at $35) that can do basically anything you tell it to do. It’s highly customizable and it’s official documentation is geared to kids, making it quite easy to learn. It has an operating system, Raspbian, which delights the user with a somewhat familiar desktop interface. To begin using it you’ll need to load on a…

Art Synesthesia project proposition

September 18, 2019 Alizarin Zroob

About Synesthesia Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway (such as vision)- Google’s 1st search result Synesthesia is one of my favorite subjects personally, both aesthetically and intellectually. Also it’s a trendy theme in the burner art-nightlife culture. Previous Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9-B47xr1YQ For the Synesthesia assignment I’d like to revisit a former work of mine: a Blacklight-reactive acrylic artwork I painted and presented in 2018. The subject of the one painting I like to focus on, as one can…