Through the dead (or dying) branch, audience can see it's memory of lifetime. My grandmom who has Alzheimer's disease often said with awareness of herself that her life is over. Her memories are not connected. Sometimes, she became a middle school student and sometimes she said that she needs to go to the kindergarten to pick me up. She kept swimming in her memories that were not organized without noticing who I am or who she is. I grab her hands and listen her stories. For me, she exists here. People often say that old creatures also had their beautiful time before; they are still beautiful like that dead branch is also beautiful. So it seems too hard to define which part of life is more meaningful. Just, through this work, I want to say that all creatures blossom in the beauty of each moments involving the moment which recalls the past.
Abstract
Interactive art has emerged as a distinctive genre in media art that relies on digital contents to express the artist’s message. Situated within this field, this work presents an approach to multimedia storytelling that allows audience members to control separate but overlapping parts of the story chapters. We believe that the system engages its audience with a high level of immersion due to its combination of digital computation and tangibility; the tangible system supports a stronger connection to the storytelling than traditional screen-based systems, helping to bridge the gap between the physical world and cyberspace within the field of multimedia storytelling. Consequently, it offers significant potential to share storytelling among a group based its immersive environment and support for embodied interaction paradigms.
Collaboration
Artist: Hyunjoo Oh || Technology: António Gomes
Exhibition
2012, Feb, TEI 2012 Art Explorations, Ontario, Canada
Abstract
Interactive art has emerged as a distinctive genre in media art that relies on digital contents to express the artist’s message. Situated within this field, this work presents an approach to multimedia storytelling that allows audience members to control separate but overlapping parts of the story chapters. We believe that the system engages its audience with a high level of immersion due to its combination of digital computation and tangibility; the tangible system supports a stronger connection to the storytelling than traditional screen-based systems, helping to bridge the gap between the physical world and cyberspace within the field of multimedia storytelling. Consequently, it offers significant potential to share storytelling among a group based its immersive environment and support for embodied interaction paradigms.
Collaboration
Artist: Hyunjoo Oh || Technology: António Gomes
Exhibition
2012, Feb, TEI 2012 Art Explorations, Ontario, Canada
