Animated short film, Avatar, Augmented Reality, live performance with real time motion capture.
YOUR BODY
While crafting Tanky's avatar, capturing her facial details and modeling her form, we began experimenting within a digital landscape. This playful exploration evolved into a gamified experience, culminating in an animated short film, with a soundscape by our dear friends, Lee and Michal: NNHMN.
We envisioned a virtual odyssey of self-discovery and transcendence, drawing inspiration from the concept of metaverses and the manifold personas we create across the diverse domains of our digital existence.
This film delves into the Platonic concepts of SOMA-SEMA, as referenced in the aforementioned Greek passage from Plato's Gorgias, attributed to Socrates:
"But who knows, perhaps living is actually dying, and dying is living? And perhaps in truth, we are already dead. For I have heard from the wise that we are currently dead, and our body is our tomb."
Is our body merely a fleeting vessel for the soul?
How do our mediated physicalities shape our emotional, spiritual existence, and journey towards transcendence?
Video premiere at post-punk.com
“τίς δ’ οἶδεν, εἰ τὸ ζῆν μέν ἐστι κατθανεῖν, τὸ κατθανεῖν δὲ ζῆν; καὶ ἡμεῖς τῷ ὄντι ἴσως τέθναμεν· ἤδη γάρ του ἔγωγε καὶ ἤκουσα τῶν σοφῶν ὡς νῦν ἡμεῖς τέθναμεν καὶ τὸ μὲν σῶμά ἐστιν ἡμῖν σῆμα”
AUGMENTED REALITY
LIVE performance
Your Body exhibited in ORT University. Martina Vallés performing live in Tanky´s avatar with a real time motion capture suit.
EXHIBITIONS
+ AWARDS
2022
Innovation in Education Award awarded to Leticia Almeida by ORT University.
Montevideo, Uruguay.
2022
United Kingdom.
2021
La Mostra, ORT University
Montevideo, Uruguay.