Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame
Designer, artist, and scholar working at the intersection of visual communication design, critical fabulation, and media aesthetics.
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Lotus World Music & Arts Festival
Stop motion animation, site-specific installation, projection mapping
Site-specific, cut-paper stop-motion animations using backwards-projected video techniques to immersively exhibit at the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival.
Concept
Alongside the creators of The Big Tent, a 360° video and audio projection installation/venue that was featured as a part of the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival, this work leverages immersive projection technology to create a unique, communal viewing experience. In this age of individual hand-held screens, this work creates opportunities for people to interact and share a transformative multimedia experience.
stop-motion animation
cut paper silhouette
site-specific installation
projection mapping
exhibited
at the 2019 World Music & Arts Festival
Wishes + Fractured Vision explores a kind of dark storytelling that eschews formulaic children’s narratives in order to promote self-efficacy, learning, and participation. The medium of fairytale offers a safe space outside our normal expectations as an axiom where assumptions can be manipulated, ultimately prompting us to ask a different set of questions. I am interested in dispelling the “happily ever after” privilege and complacency that can occur in young readers who consume too many derivative regurgitations of narrative. This works seeks to reclaim the wondrous and inexplicable that becomes lost in cookie-cutter stories that are designed to sell and re-sell. This work navigates difficult themes such as identity, heritage, greed, and failure, while also helping a viewer accept that bad things happen to everyone.