What is it about?
“Pigments of Imagination” is an interactive virtual reality experience that frames the creative process as a narrative relating the synesthetic inner-workings of one’s unique imagination to the universe around us. This installation is designed to reimagine the popular music video in a virtual space as a dynamic, emotionally engaging experience through exploration of novel approaches toward audiovisual reactivity, spatialization, and interactivity. In this piece the user can interact, directly affect, and build upon prior user interpolations of the environment’s sonic and visual qualities, allowing a narrative immersion that maintains a structured arc and conclusion but unique experience with each use.
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Why is it important?
This project aims to explore the potential for 1) compositional, spatial and audiovisual evolution in virtual spaces and 2) provide the foundation of an objective recreation of sight-sound synesthesia through a narrative-based artistic lens.
Perspectives
Developing this virtual reality project and co-writing the accompanying paper has led to a greater interest in effective immersive-storytelling techniques as well as the potential for sight-sound synesthetic research in a virtual space.
Timothy Gmeiner
University of California - San Diego
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This page is a summary of: Pigments of Imagination: An Interactive Virtual Reality Composition, October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3611659.3617201.
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