Violet Forest

United States of America

Violet Forest is a new media artist and creative technologist based in Miami, Florida, in the USA. After obtaining her Bachelor of Art degree from Florida International University in 2012 and her Masters in Fine Arts from the Art and Technology Department at the Art Institute of Chicago, Violet began to work with various different materials and software, moving from photography, experimental video and and performance art during her undergraduate studies to tools like Processing, Unity, and app development during her Masters. During her studies, Violeta co-founded Cybertwee with Gabriella Hileman and May Waver, a collective that explores intersections of femininities, feelings, and technology with a focus on community and education, especially education in digital privacy. Work from Cybertwee has been acquired by Rhizome, the leading art organization dedicated to born-digital art and culture, affiliated with the New Museum in New York.

Violet's artistic practice is mainly focused on finding new processes and techniques with emerging technologies, continuing to explore the cybertwee aesthetic through interactive Web Art, Game/Virtual Reality Art, and GAN art, to name a few different media. She has shown my work in solo and group shows at institutions like Birmingham Open Media (UK) & Berlin Transmediale Festival, as well as participating in prominent online exhibition such as 'E-motions', curated by renowned AI artist Claire Silver for Unit London Gallery.


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Fl♡♡ded 23

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"Fl♡♡ded" is a browser-based 3D environment made with three.js. Inspired by PFP projects, the environment and 3D objects that surround the character change with each generated mint to create a unique meaning to the character's story.

Standing in a flooded area, the character is surrounded by objects that represent different anxieties and relationships to our world in 2022: rising gas prices, threats of rising sea levels due to climate change, the race for the adoption of renewable energies, and the absurdity of continuing to live through those anxieties in our urban and domestic lives alongside the natural world. The powerup or item floating above her head serves as her chosen item for mechanism of survival, sometimes mental, sometimes physical, sometimes a magical item that aids her escapism, sometimes a practical tool.

The 3D character was generated with AI tools. First the character was generated as a 2D image, then passed over to another AI tool to generate a 3D model from that 2D image. The skybox images, with the exception of the grid, were generated with a text-to-image AI tool.

technique

3d

format

landscape

duration

01:23

year

2022

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