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[chamber-of-dreams]

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Alice Inside 2021

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Claudia Hart, 2021, music by Edmund Campion, 3-channel animation (Alice Unchained, 2018) as mp4 movies streaming from Vimeo, GDL model, jpegs as UV animations (created for Alice Unchained, 2018 and the Flower Matrix, 2016), mounted on Mozilla Hubs.

[claudiahart-influences]

Alice is a machine for thinking: a virtual chamber for repose and contemplation. It mashes 3D animation, motion-captured ballet and music improvised live in the VR world, and then recaptured and placed in the bodies of music avatars who deform to that same music.  It feeds-back the virtual and the live, blending them together in a liminal, uncanny mix.

The work consists of 2 parallel representations, coinciding in a single exhibition space.  The first is a three-channel high-definition movie projected on three walls. It is a 3D animation rendered anamorphically as a panoramic expanse.  The second is a VR surround environment mapped into the same physical space, built out as Vive VR.  The dual spaces exist simultaneously though each is a construction of different epoques from the art history of representations: the age of capture and the analog camera and the current digital age.  Hart has conceived of this doubling as liminal, a construction made possible through the “queering” of space and likens it to the technology theorist Donna Haraway’s notion of the Cyborg as first described in her 1983 Manifesto, where the writer imagined a Utopian future in which advanced bio-technologies would liberate human culture from the constraints of traditional gender binaries. As liminal, Alice constructs all of VR as a paradigmatic philosopher's hut, an uncanny mix of Wittgenstein and his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and Alice in Wonderland with its inverted logic.

Alice is a 3 channel XR piece, created for exhibition with a Vive VR environment.  This excerpted 4-minute version was produced for The Transfer "Download," curated by Kelani Nichole, for a special presentation at Christie’s Rockefeller Plaza in conjunction with their ART + TECH Summit on AI from June 25–28, 2019.

Music by  Danielle DeGruttola Choreography and Captured Dancing: Kristina Isabelle Audio Mix by Edmund Campion Editing by Meredith Leich

Alice Unchained was created with the support of the Center for New Music and Audio Technology at UC Berkeley Motion Capture Technical Producer: Stéphane Dalbera Motion Capture Director: Jeremy Meunier Motion Capture Studio Courtesy Of: Game On, Montreal Motion Capture Post Production Courtesy Of: Atopos, Paris, in partnership with the Bachelor in Real-Time-3D Program, HECTIC, Paris

[claudiahart-hyperreality]

The Alices Walking, 2014, A liminial opera and fashion show created in collaboration with Edmund Campion and produced by CNMAT, The Center For New Music and Audio Technology, UC Berkeley, and the Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology in Chelsea.  The wearable augmented-reality scuptures were created by Claudia Hart and Julie Robinson.  The Alices App was created by Claudia Hart.  The Alices Walking film is by Artur Ratton, and produced by Genoa Mungin.

[aprioriposterous]

"...cheerfully to carry the cross you shall lay upon us, and never to despair your recovery, while we have a man left to enjoy your Tyburn, or to be racked with your torments, or consumed with your prisons. The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun; it is of God; it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted: So it must be restored." ~ St. Edmund Campion #EdmundCampion #CampionsBrag #MarkTwain #reissue (at Dolores Hotel)

[claudiahart]

A sculptural opera and fashion show I've done in collaboration with composer Edmund Campion, premiering @ Eyebeam on March 8!

[pimpthesystem-blog]

Watching baby cousins game at Sheridan vs. Campion #basketball #ndknights #edmundcampion

[claudiahart-hyperreality]

Alice Unchained for the Transfer Download, version 2, with music by Edmund Campion, with live drummers following a digital click-track.

[claudiahart]

The Alices: A Documentation (5-minute cut), 2013

http://www.claudiahart.com/portfolio/alices/