Factory Media Centre is pleased to share that Claire Scherzinger will be joining FMC as our January – February 2021 Remote Resident Artist. FMC’s Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
Throughout this residency Claire will be developing The Floating Planets, an interactive graphic novel experience.
Please join us for a culminative Artist Talk on Tuesday March 9th at 6pm on You Tube Live.
This is your opportunity to meet Claire, and learn about her creative process which merges narrative storytelling, 3D design and world building and experimental interactive online tools.
About Claire Scherzinger:
Claire Scherzinger depicts the uncanny as a way of resisting systems of power and considering better ways to live within western civilization. Scherzinger is an interdisciplinary artist working with digital and analog mediums to develop the core of her practice, which is the process of building new worlds. Although she uses different tools and media she approaches her practice with the internal logic of a painter.
Claire Scherzinger has a BFA in drawing and painting and creative writing from OCAD University and an MFA in interdisciplinary arts from the University of Victoria. Her work has appeared in exhibitions across Canada and internationally in the US and UK. She was a purchase prizewinner of the 2015 Royal Bank of Canada funded Painting Competition and was a finalist for the Equitable Bank Emerging Digital Artist Award. She was also the host of the art interview series podcast Overly Dedicated from 2017-2019 and is the creator behind the sci-fi audio drama ARCA-45672 with the support of the University of Victoria. Her work can be found in the RBC and EQ permanent collections.
About the project:
The Floating Planets is an interactive graphic novel experience. Viewers will have the opportunity to become participants and explore text, audio, video, and interactive components that explore the narrative of invented characters and places on this series of worlds through a traditional gallery setting or access to a static web portal at home or via mobile.
Specifically, the viewer/participant will be exploring a closed system of worlds called ‘The Floating Planets.’ The Floating Planets is a series of planets that vary in their degree of habitability. Human civilizations that have adapted to the conditions of their respective world populate each planet. The viewer/participant will have access to historical records, drawings, renderings of cultural artifacts that explain why humanity left Earth for this new system and why they disappeared. They will see parts of the various biomes through videos constructed in Unreal Engine and inhabitants’ written accounts. A plot arc will emerge about the relationship between the three main worlds and their social, economic, and political relationship to one another.
Viewers/participants will be able to navigate the site whichever way they chose. The assembly of the narrative will be like constructing a puzzle and will be assembled in Eko Studio, a node-based interactive video construction platform.
“I consider this project an exercise in world-building and will follow a narrative construction similar to Eli Horowitz’s The Silent History, an app-based interactive novel for the iPhone and iPad. However, my proposed project will rely more heavily on visual strategies to build this world system (while The Silent History relies more on text).
My skill set as a digital media artist, writer, and podcaster all lend well to this proposed project’s scope. I have written, produced, and sound designed a nine-episode science fiction podcast and created various hyperrealistic worlds in Unreal Engine that have been made into audio/video installations.”
About the residency:
FMC’s &NOW Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
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