Transgression Through Your Breath
Transgression Through Your Breath, 2012 (my Interdisciplinary Arts and Media MFA thesis) is an interactive installation utilizing the viewers breath to trigger videos of words. The words pertain to anatomical explanation and existential philosophies in terms of breath and breathing. The projected words, once triggered, float across the wall to highlight the same word in handwriting to give the viewer more context to their "chosen" word. This installation was also commissioned for display in San Antonio, Texas at Luminaria 2012, a contemporary arts festival.
Animated GIF description of interactive project
Take A Deep Breath, 2012. Zine paired with installation.
I tried to turn this in as my MFA dissertation but not all of my advisors agreed. Ha.
My MFA dissertation if anyone is inclined to read it.
Presentation of my proposal for this installation given at the L.A. Center for Digital Art during the New Media Caucus.
Document of the Presentation
Below are process images testing Isadora, the software running the video projection. Watch the above video for explanation.
20 Phrases that can be triggered in order of “soft” to “hard” breath related from the physical to existential.
Semi-Controllable
Take A Deep Breath
Trigger the Parasympathetic
Replenish Oxygen
Acknowledge
Think of Your Own Breath
Learn To Control
Energize Each Blood Cell
Slow the Heartbeat
Associate
Intersect Poetics and Science
Choose
Reflect Inward
Perceive Your Experience
Remember
Become Self Aware
Consciously Breathe
Find a Calm Within Chaos
Form Relationships
Exist
Lungs Diagram, 2011. 4x8’ Inspiration before the final project came to fruition.
I received a commission to install this work at the Luminaria Festival, San Antonio, TX in 2012.
