PAST-FUTURE REALITIES: A NEW SENSE OF PLACE & TIME AT 2017 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

Virtual Reality can place you anywhere and in any time period, past, present, or future. These two VR experiences, featured at 2017 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier, each play with place and time, each in totally different, totally beautiful ways.

PLEASANT PLACES

While new technology tends to reach into the future, advancing us beyond our current realities, it also has the capacity to offer a new perspective on past creations.

Visual artist Davide Quayola offers alternative experiences of masterpieces. Pleasant Places, his latest digital art installation at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, offers a new take on Vincent Van Gogh’s Provence landscapes.

Quayola’s digital paintings augment Van Gogh’s reality, manipulating the iconic sun-drenched fields with raw data visualization. He deconstructs these historic artworks then rebuilds them anew.

Unlikely and unpredictable fusions emerge as Quayola explores polar opposites: real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new, expressed in multiple media and constructs, including photography, geometry, time-based digital sculptures, immersive audiovisual installations, and performances.

Originally inspired by Kandinsky’s paintings, Quayola leaps past them, adding sound and music to the mix to create a new multisensory language. Our experiences with Quayola’s enigmatic installations become part of the works themselves.

Quayola's works have been exhibited internationally at museums and major art events such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Venice Biennale.

See more of Quayola’s works here.

MIYUBI

If you’ve ever fantasized about living in the Jetson’s world, you’ll especially enjoy Miyubi, a fun and funny virtual reality experience by directors Felix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël.

You’ll be transported back to a retro-future (circa 1982) inside the body of Miyubi, a beloved domestic family robot. When Dad buys the kids a new Japanese toy robot, Miyubi feels the heat of competition.

TREE

Be a tree!

Tree, a haptically enhanced virtual reality experience, created by Milica Zec & Winslow Porter, enables you to see and feel what it’s like to start out as a seed that grows into a giant tree in the middle of a magical rainforest.

Your arms become branches. Your body is the trunk. And you experience both the glory and impending threat of this carbon-based life-form, witnessing its fate as human impacts press on.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
2. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
3. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
4. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
5. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
6. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
7. Image: Courtesy of Felix & Paul Studios. Miyubi, directed by Felix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël.
8. Image: Courtesy of Felix & Paul Studios. Miyubi, directed by Felix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël.
9. Image: Courtesy of New Reality Company. Tree, directed by Milica Zec & Winslow Porter.
10. Image: Courtesy of New Reality Company. Tree, directed by Milica Zec & Winslow Porter.
11. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
12. Image: Courtesy of Studio Quayola. Pleasant Places, directed by Davide Quayola.
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14. Image: by Travis Wise. “Sundance Film Festival."