Nature - Linking to Immersive Design practice
Back in 2012, the academic field of animation studies was struggling to define itself, to set itself apart from film studies, a field in which film was analysed from a seated position outside the practice of making films. I was an artist-animator making animation, immersed in practice, immersed in studio spaces, digital worlds and the natural world. I just could not relate to animation theory at that time, for me animation was experienced from within the making process as I externalised internal worlds using animation tools and techniques. Further to that, I was experimenting with different ways of interacting within these spaces using kinetic sculpture and projection mapping. The theme of my work became one of exploring the effects of fear and our response to highly traumatic experiences, the forming of internal/external worlds as understood through multi-sensory, yet physiologically limited senses, to consider how these might be interrelated. The natural...
