Damned Soggy Oat Patch Zine

Damned Soggy Oat Patch Fictioning a way through a labyrinthine ecosystem of narrative histories Practitioners from BSc Digital Arts Computing present the exhibition and public programme “Damned Soggy Oat Patch”. Drawing on ideas and theories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” to question and compose a remixed understanding of the fluid boundaries between fictions, fabulations, and non-fictional narratives.

Take a stroll through the labyrinth of installation, game art, mixed reality, video, sculpture, photography and mixed-media as the exhibiting artists play to their narrative strengths, calling to processes of creative symbiosis as ...space, matter, technology, time, and fiction... collide.

Through engaging with “fiction” as an ongoing artistic practice of “fictioning”, “Damned Soggy Oat Patch” provokes the viewer to question and challenge presupposed notions of certainty, linearity and narrative history. By creating, recreating, and re-mixing a range of immersive experiences, the artists guide the viewer through as they re-contextualise the margins between the real, the uncanny, and the otherworldly altogether.

Featured Practitioners Ana Álvarez Devon Kennedy Furi Brzozowski Isabella Blue Mary Tallontire Misia Janusz Noah Griffin Tiffany Tang Valerie Keck Vendela Haakonsen

visit the fantastical phoenix valley! use vr to experience how all critters interact with each other! Such a beautifully balanced ecosystem! then discover the destruction that a mere touch can bring! and also what comes afterwards!

x i n e o Ph y e l l a V ez r a v l Á Ana ez Martín

SELFCURAT ION ISABELLA BLUE

"Suddenly I Live Forever" "Wasted Words and Wasted Faces" "You Are You, I Am I, We Are We" "I Am Lost Between These Two Realms" "I Am Lost, Lingering Between These Two Realms" "Seeking Acceptance Where Nobody Knows The Truth" "Are You Really As Happy As You Look Online?" "I Am Nobody Who Are You?" "Unseen Realities, Neither Real Realities" "Please Don't Forget Me" "Who Are You When Nobody Is Looking?" "WhenSomeone Steals Your Identity It Is Not Unreasonable To Think It Is A Crisis" "My Body Will Decompose, Yet Traces Of Me Will Live On Forever" "Living In An Eternal Realm" "Look At Me, Tell Me What You See" "I Have Two Identities, Neither Which Describe Me"

nowhere actually existing mary tallontire

Created in Unity, Nowhere Actually Existing is an exploration of simulation and the concept of a utopia.

Through usign simulation as a way to illustrate how a person sees the world, I present my personal view of a utopia with visions of a harmonious ecosystem and sustainable community in tune with the world around it. However, it is merely a simulation; it doesn’t physically exist, and this world could never work.

This utopia isn’t real, and it will assure you’re aware of this. matallon.itch.io/no

Misia Janusz Interactive Sculpture Installation

The digital sculpture was based off a few sketches which were then converted into meshes using Blender

These meshes were then further manipulated and sculpted with Blender to reach a state that was more akin to the original drawings

After the sculpting was completed I experimented with SLA 3D printing some drafts and tried spraypainting and adding different finishes to them to see how this would effect the final product

Also tried to make a conductive epoxy putty with Milliput and iron powder but it was not conductive and so went back to printing the sculpture in resin and then electroplating it to be able to attach some sensors onto the sculpture that change the droning sound that the piece produces over time

Bleeding into the World

Bleeding into the World

Untitled Valerie Keck