2,468 research outputs found
The Visit (VR)
No full textThe Visit, 2019 VR - The Visit is an interactive VR project, developed from a ground-breaking research project conducted by artists and psychologists working with women living with dementia. Visitors are invited to sit with Viv, a life-sized, photorealistic animated character whose dialogue is created largely from verbatim interviews, drawing us into a world of perceptual uncertainty, while at the same time confounding stereotypes and confronting fears about dementia. Like the women who co-created her, Viv experiences various dementia-related symptoms, including hallucinations and confabulation (unconscious fabrication as means of making sense of information). She is also insightful and reflective. Viv is living a life and coming to terms with a neurological change. In the interactive VR work Viv is ‘aware of’ and responds to the visitors presence in her home but the piece invites quiet attentiveness rather than the kind of interaction characteristic of gaming. Visitors sit with and listen to Viv without judgement, irritation, pity or despair, finding a way into her world.
Director and Producer: Jill Bennett Art Director and Production Design: Volker Kuchelmeister Cast: Voice actress: Heather Mitchell Motion Capture actress: Emma Kew Script: Jill Bennett, Natasha Ginnivan Script consultants: Melissa Neidorf, Gail Kenning, David Pledger Interviewees/contributors: Prue Uther, Joan Eva, Jennifer Bute, Wendy Mitchell Researchers: Natasha Ginnivan, Chris Papadopoulos, Melissa Neidorf, Gail Kenning. Motion Capture: Joe Holloway Voice recording: Tobias Gilbert 3D Artist: Chris Norris, Jason Dobra 3D scanning: Matt Cabanag (UNSW LITEroom) LIDAR: Bruce Harvey (UNSW Engineering) Music: Peter Sculthorp
The Visit
No full textThe Visit, 2019 (from the Confabulations project)
Interactive video installation
Duration, 20 mins
The Visit is an interactive real-time video installation, developed from a ground-breaking research project conducted by artists and psychologists working with women living with dementia. Visitors are invited to sit with Viv, a life-sized, photorealistic animated character whose dialogue is created largely from verbatim interviews, drawing us into a world of perceptual uncertainty, while at the same time confounding stereotypes and confronting fears about dementia.
Like the women who co-created her, Viv experiences various dementia-related symptoms, including hallucinations and confabulation (unconscious fabrication as means of making sense of information). She is also insightful and reflective. Viv is living a life and coming to terms with a neurological change.
The interactive video is sensitive to the motions of the viewer so that Viv is ‘aware of’ and responds to your presence in her home but the piece invites quiet attentiveness rather than the kind of interaction characteristic of gaming. Sit with and listen to Viv without judgement, irritation, pity or despair, finding a way into her world. Credits
Director and Producer: Jill Bennett
Art Director and Production Design: Volker Kuchelmeister
Cast: Voice actress: Heather Mitchell
Motion Capture actress: Emma Kew
Script: Jill Bennett, Natasha Ginnivan
Script consultants: Melissa Neidorf, Gail Kenning, David Pledger
Interviewees/contributors: Prue Uther, Joan Eva, Jennifer Bute, Wendy Mitchell
Researchers: Natasha Ginnivan, Chris Papadopoulos, Melissa Neidorf, Gail Kenning.
Motion Capture: Joe Holloway
Voice recording: Tobias Gilbert
3D Artist: Chris Norris, Jason Dobra
3D scanning: Matt Cabanag (UNSW LITEroom)
LIDAR: Bruce Harvey (UNSW Engineering)
Music: Peter Sculthorp
Amnesia Museum Forum
No full textThe Amnesia Museum Forum accompanied the exhibition Shona Illingworth: Lesions in the Landscape and addressed and explored the relationship between imagination and memory loss, and the role of art in relation to both the scientific understanding and lived experience of memory.
Invited speakers to the Amnesia Museum Forum:
Prof Michelle Moulds (psychology, intrusive memory)
Prof Michael Balfour (theatre and PTSD)
Dr Maria Angel (digital writing and memory)
Prof Lynn Froggett (psycho-social research)
Dr Muireann Irish (neuropsychology, memory and imagination)
Shona Illingworth (artist collaborating with neuropsychologists)
Prof Jill Bennett (art, trauma and memory loss
Amnesia Lab - symposium
No full textThe Amnesia Lab, was an experimental symposium in an exhibition setting, co-designed by Shona Illingworth and Jill Bennett (UNSW). It took place at the UNSW Galleries and NIEA iCinema Lab 23 – 25 September 2014 as part of the Signs of Life; Brain and Amnesia Week and brought together memory experts, artists and writers to explore how photographic images, sound and immersive media can advance our understanding of memory and forgetting. The Lab is part of an ongoing research collaboration led by artist Shona Illingworth with cognitive neuropsychologist Martin A. Conway (City University, London) and neuropsychologist Catherine Loveday (Westminster) in the UK, and by Jill Bennett (UNSW) in Australia. Ilingworth, Conway, Loveday, Bennett and colleagues staged a series of discussions in specially designed environments, utilising techniques such as EEG sonification, drawing, and immersive interaction. The Lab presented research-in-progress for Lesions in the Landscape: Claire and the Island of Hirta, a project led by Shona Illingworth and funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK, and focused in particular on the use of imagery from Sense Cam (a wearable sensory operated camera) as memory cue in the context of amnesia. Sessions included a focus on the workings of episodic memory and memory cues, and their relationship to photographic imagery; the issues of perspective and viewpoint in memory, and visual-kinaesthetic perception. Presentations were given by the research team and by cognitive scientist and philosopher John Sutton (Macquarie), psychologists Amanda Barnier and Celia Harris (Macquarie University) and Elise van den Hoven (UTS). Public lectures included Digital Amnesia: Design for Forgetting, Corina Sas (Lancaster) and iMemory: Why the past is all over, Andrew Hoskins (Glasgow)
Amnesia Lab - exhibition
No full textThe Amnesia Lab exhibition at UNSW Galleries, 20 September to 8 November, was co-curated by Jill Bennett, Shona Illingworth and Felicity Fenner. The exhibition presented research-in-progress for Lesions in the Landscape: Claire and the Island of Hirta, a project led by Illingworth (PI), with Professor Martin A. Conway and Dr Catherine Loveday, (funded by the Wellcome Trust, UK), alongside: the Amnesia Atlas (prototype), a 3D immersive SenseCam interface for exploring memory, Volker Kuchelmeister, Jill Bennett, Dennis Del Favero and students at UNSW; Did I? (2011), a video installation by Hiraki Sawa and the Glass Brain, an anatomically realistic 3D visualisation depicting activity from EEG (electroencephalographic) signals, Gazzaley Lab/Neuroscape Lab, UCSF. The exhibition was reviewed in the Australian, print and online, by Penny Durham, 26 September 2014. Shona Illingworth and Felicity Fenner were interviewed by Michael Cathcart for Books and Art Daily, ABC Radio, Tuesday 30 September 2014 10:21am
BJC Cheerleaders team photograph (1967-1968)
No full textBJC Cheerleaders team photograph (1967-1968). Front row: Beverly Youness, Mary Beth Wheeler, Diane Bennett, Kathy Bartels; Back row: Lynette Opp, Patty Wheeler, Jill Stuart
Jill Mellick, August 29, 1948 - December 20, 2022
No full textJill Mellick, Ph.D. author, multi-media artist, Jungian psychologist and Professor Emerita, passed away December 20, 2022
Being Debra
No full textBeing Debra, 2019
Virtual Reality on headset
Duration, 12 mins
Employing Virtual Reality (VR), Being Debra offers the audience a taste of the embodied experience of being a dwarf in contemporary Australian society (with all its challenges, ugliness and triumphs). Shot from a first-person perspective with a 180 degree camera, the project was initiated by artist Debra Keenahan who lives with achondroplasia dwarfism. The VR experience includes flashbacks to Debra’s memories of school, dating, and engaging with authority figures, including doctors, as well as her routine daily encounters in a park.
Over 70 years ago psychologist Alfred Adler described empathy as “seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another”. This project explores how technology can help promote empathy by affording the viewer an embodied experience of disability and its public reception. But Keenahan’s research also takes a critical view. The notion of VR as the ultimate Empathy Machine, as proclaimed by Chris Milk in 2015, remains contentious. As Wendy Chun suggests, “If you walk in someone else’s shoes, then you’ve taken their shoes”. Is the empathy machine a mechanism of cultural appropriation or is it the means to respectful mutual understanding? VR of course cannot enable us to “be” Debra — but in this work Keenhan reveals in a powerful way what it is like to be the object of looks, glances, abuse and stigma each time she walks in public. By experiencing each of these events through VR, all of which have happened, and many of them much more than once, you will come to an understanding of what it is like to be Debra. That is, how those who are a different kind of different can be treated in this society which ironically places great value on individuality.
Credits
Artistic Director: Debra Keenahan
Art Director and Production Design: Volker Kuchelmeister
Screenplay: Debra Keenahan, Katrina Douglas, Sarah Keenahan
Director and Casting Director: Katrina Douglas
Producer and script consultant: Jill Bennett
Audio Recording, Sound Engineer, Production Assistant: Louis Pratt
Sound Track: Damien Everett
A fEEL production for The Big Anxiety
‘Being Debra’ has been created with the support of funding from: The Australia Council for the Arts; Western Sydney University
Brooks Bennett interview
No full textPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesBrooks Bennett moved to Bothell from Philadelphia in 1971, and has been here for 43 years. He has been working as a mailman in Bothell since 1973. Brooks covers many topics detailing his life in Bothell, his life prior to Bothell and where he lived and what he enjoyed growing up, and what he misses about Bothell in the way it used to be when he first moved here. He talks about the urbanization of Bothell, including the input of a university campus and how it was initially to be a shopping center. He also talks about his work life as a Bothell mailman for 40 years and his work with the Campus Transportation Committee and the issues he deals with, such as traffic in Bothell and around the UW campus
Jill McCorkle, 30th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJill McCorkle is the author of five novels and three story collections including Creatures of Habit, The Cheerleader, and Ferris Beach. Her work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Best American Short Stories, The Southern Review, and New Stories from the South, among other publications. She has received the New England Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. Currently, McCorkle is on the faculty at North Carolina State University as the Lee Smith Writer in Residence
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