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…
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,…
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…
Fewture is an original Sci-Fi AR/VR experience, immersing the user in possible variations of the future. Each variation is envisioning a speculative reality based on our world’s current condition. While Fewture variation #1 – Glitter Shores – suggested a flooded world with humanity residing on islands made of glitter and plastic debris, Fewture variation #2 – Server Farm Penthouses – pictures a world designed and governed by Artificial Intelligence. Ranging between utopia and dystopia, Fewture’s scenarios are optimistic in tone and follow personal narratives of female protagonists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XtLjogMIU About the scenes Fewture variation 2 happens in a dystopian city in…