HYPNOTHESIS GALLERY / Chill space - MASSART TAKEOVER
Lost in Transition
Multimedia installation by Xinyu
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Xinyu is an interdisciplinary media artist from China based in Boston. Her practice combines sound design and media installation, often incorporating diverse materials to construct immersive environments that explore philosophy, psychology, emotional perception, and personal experience.
Working across moving image, sound, and installation, Xinyu approaches image, sound, and material as spatial elements rather than linear narrative tools. Her works unfold through non-linear structures that emphasize presence, duration, and sensory ambiguity, inviting viewers to inhabit transitional and introspective states.
She received her MA in Performance from Central Saint Martins, London, UK, in 2024. Her installation Lost in Transition was exhibited on June 11, 2024, at All Is Joy Studio, Soho, London.
Your Feedback Matters
Multimedia installation by Jérémie Kevin McCartney
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Quotes from the artist:
"An oscillating webcam would capture the viewer and feed the video into OBS. The video would go through multiple layers of digital video feedback loops and effects. The “corrupted” video would then be displayed on the CRTV the viewer was standing in front of."
"I enjoy pushing tools past their intended purposes, especially programs I grew up using. There is an expectation that the program holds for me as a user, and I can do the exact opposite of what it’s expecting from me. To use OBS not as a live streaming or recording software, but instead as a medium for interactive art that will never actually record, is very exciting to me as an artist.
- The viewer has to interact with the piece for it to actually work– if no one interacting with it, there is no piece. Every person’s reaction to a camera on them is different– especially when they realize they’re on display. It explores themes of surveillance and the collection of personal data without actually doing either."
PC-9801
Multimedia installation by digitalfuture.cat
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digitalfuture.cat is an interdisciplinary visual artist based out of Boston, Massachusetts. They are fascinated by intentional information loss; is there something to be gained in pixelation and corruption? Is there something lost in the modern world's desire for realism in technology?
In recent years they've become fascinated with visual novels released on the PC98. The PC-9800 Series which was a type of Japanese computer that was produced in various models between 1982 and 2003. It had a limited hardware capacity, color display and resolution, so the games that were made for it had a distinct, visual style. Through recreating a PC-9801 out of cardboard and using it as a projection container for an accompanying video piece, they hope to invite the audience to share in their fascination with this visual style and think critically about the kinds of narratives that were told through visual novel games. The projection container was made with assistance from Harley White.
more info: digitalfuturecat.neocities.org
Horror at Rest
Multimedia installation by Ev Page
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Quote from the artist:
What is it? ‘Horror at Rest’ is a projection mapped installation of a one eyed, cosmic horror nodding off in a cozy pile of pillows and blankets.
Ok… Why? A significant amount of my practice explores the relationship between the self and the other. Frequently, I utilize unknowable, cosmic horrors to serve as “the other”. I’ve found viewers establish a sense of kinship with them, projecting a personality onto their simple features. I’m very interested in using animation, projection mapped onto a physical base, to create a puppet of sorts that can amplify the character of these creatures and bring them into reality. It seems fitting to put something typically viewed as creepy into a soft and endearing situation to challenge viewer’s perception.
How? The body of the creature, which is stagnant, will be created as a physical object; nearly a 2D canvas, but with texture of the creature’s wrinkles sculpted in and an open hole in the middle to serve as either the eyes or mouth. This body will be installed to a wall, surrounded by pillows and blankets. The moving portions (eye, mouth, tentacles) will be digitally animated and projection mapped onto the body.
Trichrome
Multimedia installation by Julia Leite and Ev Page
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Recreating RGB color space by using three projectors (one for each color), the artists are inviting the public to interact and explore how their shadows appear on the projections, and, perhaps, for a moment, understand what it's like to be transformed from three dimensions to one and then back again.