Being Alone - Wiri Donna
In this piece of work, I created a music video for Wellington-based musician Wiri Donna. The video is an interactive and immersive environment that speaks to the notions of her latest EP Release ‘Being Alone’
You can find the full music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edftQJbh-A0
The music video was the perfect opportunity to test a non-binary rationale through a unique generative design process. I focused on how a virtual world might look and feel if Wiri Donna had full autonomy of her surroundings. This project acted as an influential development piece within my thesis studies, as it spoke to the notions of unlearning the way we interact with virtual spaces, through the conceptual framework of Wiri Donna's music. ‘Into the Maw: a domain beyond’ explores how a Non-Binary entity inhabits code-space.
A Cyber-Non-Binary existence is often expressed behind the closed doors of social and architectural landscapes. It relies merely on the self-autonomy and agency that cyberspace and digital existence provides. We cannot change how existing software computes, but we can change how we use it. Treating a binary-coded system (in this case, Blender) as a 3-dimensional object, offered a new lens to explore the formal and spatial facets of video production. Set design, texturing, lighting, and filming takes on new capabilities within virtual space.
Within the music video, viewers can experience a world generated by experience and emotive parameters. Wiri Donna's world suggests sanctum within alternate platforms of existence, a platform where a non-binary entity prevails through the design and construction of virtual world existence, providing a means to explore, experiment, and express oneself freely
Contributors
Bianca Bailey
Sophie Forsyth
Maeve O’Connell
Jessica Soderberg
You can find the full music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edftQJbh-A0
The music video was the perfect opportunity to test a non-binary rationale through a unique generative design process. I focused on how a virtual world might look and feel if Wiri Donna had full autonomy of her surroundings. This project acted as an influential development piece within my thesis studies, as it spoke to the notions of unlearning the way we interact with virtual spaces, through the conceptual framework of Wiri Donna's music. ‘Into the Maw: a domain beyond’ explores how a Non-Binary entity inhabits code-space.
A Cyber-Non-Binary existence is often expressed behind the closed doors of social and architectural landscapes. It relies merely on the self-autonomy and agency that cyberspace and digital existence provides. We cannot change how existing software computes, but we can change how we use it. Treating a binary-coded system (in this case, Blender) as a 3-dimensional object, offered a new lens to explore the formal and spatial facets of video production. Set design, texturing, lighting, and filming takes on new capabilities within virtual space.
Within the music video, viewers can experience a world generated by experience and emotive parameters. Wiri Donna's world suggests sanctum within alternate platforms of existence, a platform where a non-binary entity prevails through the design and construction of virtual world existence, providing a means to explore, experiment, and express oneself freely
Contributors
Bianca Bailey
Sophie Forsyth
Maeve O’Connell
Jessica Soderberg