‘Lucid’
Collaboration between Hollie Leggett & Ingrid Schelzel
Multimedia Installation
2023
We live in a digital world, one foot in reality and one foot in the reality on the screen. This concept has become core to our societal structures. As we become a more technology-dependent society, our human presence sometimes seems to get lost in the screen.
Ingrid Schelzel and I created a space with the feeling that you are inside of a screen. This was featured in Gallery 148 in The Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 3/31/23 to 4/16/23.
Photos by London King
Gallery 148 was treated as an experimentation platform for Ingrid and I throughout much of this time. We wanted to use this space to showcase the new media capabilities that are available on our campus. We also wanted to prove that the screen can be malleable and not always in a rigid form.
We hosted a gallery opening, where we saw people interacting with our work. The community inside of the space really emphasized the interconnectivity of the web.
Photo by Miles Mullen
Photo by Miles Mullen
Photo by Miles Mullen
Photo by Miles Mullen
Photo by Miles Mullen
Photo by Miles Mullen
Also inside the space, we created a VR experience using Unity. Through this experience, we wanted the user to feel trapped and hopeless, almost. We wanted to explore blurring the lines between reality and virtual reality. The video in the headset is the same as the one in reality, except it is data moshed. The trees inside of the experience change materials when you pass through.
Photos by Miles Mullen
We mimicked the trees used in the VR headset to create an AR experience. When the user moves through the trees, they sound like whispers.
The AR experience mirrors the usage of the video in the “real world.” The video inside of the AR experience is data moshed just like the video inside of the VR experience.