The Vitruvian Woman
My work seeks to examine the relationship between identity and self-representation in our digital culture. Heavily influenced by pop art and the French new wave, my projects contain themes of recognizable imagery/content while experimenting with fragmentation that goes against the grain of traditional film making. I think aptly named, The Vitruvian Woman, serves as a self-centralized depiction of a larger-scale digital captivation. This film looks to fuse multiple forms of content and media inside the climate of rising digital dystopian philosophies. I think this narrative of digital saturation will be representative of a growing trend of concerns/considerations for VR/AR in society and culture; and that this modern story has a similar growth trajectory to that of the past. I wished to show this “anatomical” evolution from blank state to system overload as having a cynical nature ... :)
Focus on the use of mixed media/layered animation. Using physical objects such as a styrofoam mannequin head, photos, magazine cutouts, and paper. Process of cutting and constructing photos and graphics into animations. Used projection mapping to cast the images and animations onto the mannequin -- layering the physical with the digital. Reality with imagination.
