Luciana Haill

Since 2018 I have been making artworks visible in augmented reality, to express my fascination with lost heritage & gentrification. Technically this involves using software including Unity & Vuforia with a creative technologist. As an artist not technically skilled in app development I have been getting to grips with Blender, SketchUp3D, Polycam3D and photography. I enjoy live improvisations of duplicates of existing models, such as building a beach hut at 1:12 scale and then interrogating it with an augmented version into and through itself.

to discover how to reach and provoke (engage) with a blended audience, an online audience and achieve income streams

Reading :

Live Visuals - Steve Gibson
VJ Culture - Michael Faulkner D-Fuse
Sampling Media - David Laderman, Laurel Westrup
Otto Ranks The Double (1916)
Digital Dualism by Nathan Jurgenson (2012)

Exploring :

photogrammetry/accidents & anomalies such as bad grammetry make new inventions
duplicates and cubist interventions between the real and scanned version of the same objects
Steam games suggested by mentor Simon Wilkinson that are heavy on narrative
Activity partners for future applications for heritage funding for festival Folkestone biennale ( 2023 ) aiming to be commisioned for a new Apparition, to extend the app and its geotagged life size models for festival history and locality

Artists :

Visual models and real actors in photographs by Richard Tuschman - www.lensculture.com/richard-tuschman
and Tom Hunter https://www.tomhunter.org/gallery/

Techniques :

Photogrammetry Photography converted into models using Polycam3D software, IRL lighting, subterfuge, duplicates intersecting of Poly and real

New influences :

At Extended Senses symposium in Greenwich University in September 2022 I first encountered 'Facades' by Displaced studio, a room scale virtual reality experienced that moved me to tears. They are exploring the intersection of dance, film, physical theatre and digital technology, Displace produce bold, boundary-pushing work that dances between the darkness and the light - reality and fantasy - creating deep, interpersonal, immersive experiences that encourage audiences to step into, behind, and around the edges of illusion.

Works often take the form of intimate, dreamlike journeys through uncertain places rich in symbolism and metaphor in which curious behaviours are encountered. http://displace.org.uk/

I am considering what an Augmented reality Exquisite corpse experience could be like, via an online platform like Twitch in an interactive game, mixed with IRL audience of host venue. The name ‘cadavre exquis’ was derived from a phrase that resulted when they first played the game, ‘le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau’ (‘the exquisite corpse will drink the new wine’).

Cadavre exquis is similar to the old parlour game 'Consequences' – in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold to conceal what they have written, and pass it on to the next player – but adapted so that parts of the body are drawn instead. It was invented in 1925 in Paris by the surrealists Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert, André Breton and Marcel Duchamp.

Issues in the art ( language overuse, abuse, misuse or inappropriate use of terms ) :

Emerging - absolute over use - rubbish, each second is emerging

Blurring boundaries - nope - we can all see the screen, blurring or successfully integrating`/

Excited online prescence - no I am not excited at all, although I have felt nerves before a livestream when I am VJing.

Interrupted by :

Stylistically : Cronenberg (Naked Lunch, Existenz), (see big book for notes)
Culturally : Lockdown & post covid corporate insults eg : no or low fee internship-like offerings are now back on the table, after years of confidently declining working for free (for exposure etc )
Anti capitalism : I no longer want to work for anything I dont fully respect.
Gentrification : displacement of artists as seaside places become more desirable and priced out of rental, hence Prince Albert 'be more Albert'
Closing of live venues - how do I make an income as livestreams dont pay well. How to get commissioned and reach activity partners

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