Screen Grabs
External Elements
AI Tools
https://pdfgpt.io/
https://www.descript.com/transcription
Audio
Play.ht dashboard
Uberduck – Make cool stuff with AI and text to speech
AI Music Generator – SOUNDRAW
https://boomy.com/style
https://beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis
https://lovo.ai/?lmref=aQMezw
https://voice.ai/ai-voice-changer
https://genny.lovo.ai/signin
https://www.resemble.ai/
https://altered.studio/
Image.
https://www.midjourney.com/home/?callbackUrl=%2Fapp%2F
https://github.com/EmpireMediaScience/A1111-Web-UI-Installer
https://www.bluewillow.ai/
https://civitai.com/
https://withpoly.com/browse/textures
https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/
My Ai server (runs midjourney)
https://discord.gg/gCbgC3XzHB
Feedback
we had a couple gest to present our work to
Green House
Voice
Tree
Time machine
Bonsai XXX
While taking about bonsai with my contextual theory tutor I was taken a little of guard. In mentioning possibilities about writing about bonsai and Japanese tradition he drew parales of control fantasies and themes of BDS in counter to my take on bonsai aligning with loss of control and being beholden to nature. Comparing the binding and cutting to themes of domination with similar to the another Japanese artform of shibari. At first i found the consistent referral to sexual themes …. unusual.
But now as I’m reproaching the project as more absurd and comedic rather than as a unsettling horror. I now see the humour and absurdity. Players could be “accidently” given a incorrect tool to use on their tree as part of bondage gear (the tree having a reaction to this would be a laugh.
Final Major Project: Presentation
Bonsai VR is a narrative meta critique of VR
- A narrator tutors you in taking care of a bonsai tree.
- The apps appears friendly and calm but gradually starts to corrupt and become strange and uncomfortable
- Tools don’t function correctly and break. Your tree is replaced and behaves strangely. The narrator tries to persuade your to look the other way and keep the tutorial going as if nothing is wrong.
My core idea is to create a faux meditative and wholesome bonsai tutorial VR app that gradually becomes more malicious and corrupted with uncomfortable and insidious themes of absurd horror.
Themes
- Time commitment vs Low attention span (“here is something I made earlier”)
- Creative consequences (undo button)
- The extinction of boredom as a result of Distractions Mobile phone, digital media like shorts content. (tik tok, youtube and instagram)
- Capitalism traditions and values.
- Mass commodification
- B̶̶u̶̶r̶̶e̶̶a̶̶u̶̶c̶̶r̶̶a̶̶c̶̶y̶̶ ̶a̶̶l̶̶t̶̶h̶̶o̶̶u̶̶g̶̶h̶̶ ̶n̶̶e̶̶c̶̶e̶̶s̶̶s̶̶a̶̶r̶̶y̶̶ ̶s̶̶u̶̶c̶̶k̶̶s̶̶
- Physical vs Digital mediums (film vs digital photography) and what is lost when we make art digitally.
- The short sighted ,senseless and foolish creation of apps made for VR.
- Rejection of nature.
Audience and installation.
- Aiming to create a VR experience for LCC’s grad show.
- Keep people from overstaying their welcome whilst allowing for user initiative. Keeping it Relatively short and possibly submittable to XR film festivals.
- methods of hand holding the user through dialogue and interactions with the narrator to keep the experience flowing.
- Installation elements could be considered in order to draw intrigue and create content for people outside the VR experience walking by or watching.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xMsm67JjBqj-X12401RMTkthaVBSGsmFLCv9zmR8jiQ/edit?usp=sharing