FINAL OUTCOMES C Major Scale Welcome to the Uncanny Valley For experimentation, sometimes I combine self-composed music 4 with visual art. OPEN CALL VR walkthrough of the virtual world: the Uncanny Valley The composition is about the musical and physical representa- tion of the process of adopting cultural diversity and exchanges of SIONS SUBMIS Welcome to the Uncanny Valley explores the relationship between fascina- multidisciplinary ideas. The beauty, texture, and endless possibilities tion and the uncanny, specifically, how I can evoke feelings of the uncanny of a singular color shine much brighter when it is mixed with and AudioVisual - Design with music in visual media and reality, learning from filmmakers, Gothic Literature, contrasted against others. The commingling of colors represents movies and animation. The research method captures the uncanny ele- acceptance and bonding of cultural and ideological differences. Selected works for My Dream These Days exhi- ment from the angle and perspective of its influence upon humans and bition curated by SAIC; a 12-hour showcase of their fear – how the uncanny incites fear and its mechanisms. Starting with the stringed music, I dropped one drop of red poster artist work streamed consecutively on Twitch, paint into the water. As the music progressed with richer sounds as well as projected live at physical locations in This project is a body of work that examines the close proximity between from more instruments, I dropped various colors of paint into the the Chicago area (SAIC Performance Hall 280). the realistic and the eerie. In this piece, I have 3d scanned my everyday life water as well. and places like school hall, bus, underground station, and my own design In 2021, I submitted some of my work to the process of making plaster face cast. After all the colors are mixed together, I added a large amount of open call for new media exhibition - My Dream white paint into the water, which fused all the colors into one. That These Days Part I & II, curated by SAIC. Three I have imagined the Uncanny valley as not just a theory but an actual place, is the point where the music comes to an end and back to singular of my submitted audiovisual-integrated works and I have experienced it first hand. stringed music, which symbolizes we are one in harmony. Levitating, Perspectives, and C Major Scale Full Project Available at https://artemisweng.wixsite.com/arte/dissolving- were selected for both exhibitions. For all three Full Project Available at https://artemisweng.wixsite.com/arte/dis- pieces, I combined self-composed music with realities solvingrealities visual that added a whole new dimension. Some express their thoughts and feelings through words or actions. For me, visual arts and music are my ways to connect to the world and lend an artistic voice to the voiceless and Perspectives socially vulnerable. I like to 3D scan liminal places in daily life to document extra dimen- View on website: https://artemisweng.wixsite. sions of reality, turning mundane life into cinema. Moreover, I want to com/arte/opencallsubmissions warp how we see reality by building tension with camera movement. 3D Gallery: https://newart.city/show/mdtd-vir- I capture the surreal yet daunting world of our hazy dreams and tual memories and let people wander in this place where the rules of the universe do not apply. I embrace photogrammetry’s fuzzy texture and imprecise nature instead of trying to get close to photorealism. I find this more authentic to reality as there are different ways of seeing it, and this is how I see it. Now seek your broken and missing jigsaw puzzles in this space, and as you revisit it, the old memories are re- vived piece by piece. Full Project Available at https://artemisweng.wixsite.com/arte/dis- solvingrealities PROCESS
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