s.h.e. is a project that plays with virtuality and reality. Displayed on the five screens are 3D characters, facing the visitors. All five animations are synchronous and interlinked into a single image by using custom-made software. The screens are set apart so that the virtual actresses, who pass from screen to screen, seemingly pass through the real space as well. Thus two spaces overlap – the virtual and the real. The virtual space is emptied; its spatiality is defined by the virtual characters through their movement and behavior (the animation). In the voidspace, the virtuals are left to explore their own virtual identities. That’s why they knock on the insides of the screens, touch the boundary (the edge) of the picture and enter their own virtual bodies.
Bio
Nataša Teofilović is a media artist, whose recent work also includes digital ambiances. Through spatial disposition and animation, the works re-examine the perception of virtual characters and the boundaries between virtual and real spaces. She won an honorary mention in the first Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN competition and Jury Recommended Work at 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2012. She has exhibited in Ars Electronica Festival (2007, Linz, Austria), Incheon International Digital Art Festival (2009, Korea), Shanghai eArts Festival (2007, China), DAT (2007, Singapore Science Centre), HTMlles 8 Festival, (2007, Montreal, Canada), “Conversation”, (2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), “Out of Chaos – Media, Food, Industrial Products” (1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria).
