Download my food is a flavor project that features two components. The first is an offline installation featuring vegan jellies in a mini-fridge with a computer set on top of the fridge. In an attempt to use crowd-sourcing as a means of digitizing the flavor information, visitors must try a jelly, and – while tasting – are commanded to fill out a Google Form attempting to collect information on the jelly’s flavor: taste, smell, texture, etc. In turn, their submissions are gathered into a dataset that is made publicly available online. Online visitors access a webpage with a single link that reads “download my food”, which triggers upon clicking the download of both the recipe as an XML file and the current version of the dataset.
Perfect melon is a VR performance aiming to create a fictional corporate persona as a pseudo technology corporation. The “corporation” behind Perfect Melon exploits the alienated senses of its consumers by claiming its products will “reconnect” the viewers to the romanticized idea of a lost natural world. Moreover, Perfect melon explores the corporate interests hidden by the guise of community-building. Perfect melon is activated by audience participation with real-time audio, visual, and flavor components. The participants enter the virtual space with the mission of finding the perfect melon through slapping, hearing, and tasting different melons. Each chosen melon has a unique flavor profile mixed by a flavor (smell + taste) display.
Categories: Artwork, Gustatory, Olfactory, Virtual Reality
Santiary selves is a olfactory VR installation celebrating and critiquing motion capture databases from the 2000s. Audience members are invited to engage with the project through immersive smell and sound as well as interact with the database in a virtual space. Sanitary selves seeks to question the sanitation and omission of markers of identity in the databases, asking whether purely abstract movements can exist when we are so steeped in culture.
Categories: Artwork, Olfactory, Virtual Reality
The installation explores the perceived synthetic emotions derived from traditional, domestic flower preservation. Flowers were cut from their stem, preserved in paraffin wax, and randomly reattached with botanist’s tape. A thick paraffin blanket affixes the stems to the Pyrex dish. The flowers waft soft floral, powdery, and woody notes from the addition of Dior Homme.
Marguerite, a young girl in high school, tapes her day at school as it tumbles into a progressively weirder world. Simulathon explores the notion of the simulacrum, particularly tackling the ambiguity and arbitrary nature of “humanity.”
Categories: Artwork, Short Film