The Trip
Mixed Reality Experience, 2019
13 min
Anxiety and nostalgia converge in the backseat of an old Chevy as it travels through a darkened desert landscape. Uncanny dreams are the starting point for The Trip, a 15-minute road trip that incorporates tactile, olfactory, audio, and visual sensations that destabilize centralized subjective experience.
Virtual Reality Experience
Run time- 15 min
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
3 channel video
30 minute runtime
Preliminary studio setup for implementing The Trip.
This chair is where the experience begins. There are fans mounted that blow air from the front. There is a ethereal synth track in the background and I diffuse a few essential oils and odors during the viewing.
| Album | The Trip |
| Category | Documentation |
Char Stiles Projections on the large chamber.
This view of the installation has a transforming projection of Sudanchu's photograph at the center. The brilliant cyans and magentas pulsate like the circulatory system of a body but are in fact tree branches. Sudanchu's Photography reflects his interest and study of the human body. Char and Sudachu collaborated on the projection which activates a pulse of tree branches.
Sudanchu Shekhar
Char Stiles
Anna Henson's webcam is actually not one webcam but two webcams. One webcam is inside the body of the installation and captures the bodies that spontaneously perform for it. The performance is then projected onto a membrane in the front of the room and captured by the second webcam and projected back onto the chamber of the installation where the performance is happening. This interaction is happening in real time, and the performer can see the changes of light. The recursive nature of the interaction is tangible immediately spawning more play and performance.
One important note: We are not recording the participants through these webcams.
Upon entering Powder Room, this translucent organ, a gauzy interior pulses with asymmetrically rhythmic color.
Close-up of Char's projection on the walls of the installation. This figure was captured at CMU's Panoptic Studio as a point cloud and manipulated by Char. Emily's organic seats were crafted for the space with the intention of creating a communal space to observe the projections and have a conversation.
Char Stiles
www.charstiles.com
Emily deGrandpré
emilydegrandpre.com
Close-up of Char's projection on the walls of the installation. This figure was captured at CMU's Panoptic Studio as a point cloud and manipulated by Char. Emily's organic seats were crafted for the space with the intention of creating a communal space to observe the projections and have a conversation.
Char Stiles
www.charstiles.com
Emily deGrandpré
emilydegrandpre.com
Shadow and Dust, performance at Powder Room May 4, 2018