Piece-ful Mind, Digital Short, 2022

Piece-ful Mind (2022) is a storytelling exploration of isolation, the ways in which we seek community, and our tangled existence with technology. Inspired by nostalgia, the use of early web 2.0 and 90’s aesthetics acts as a juxtaposition to our relationship with predictive algorithmic, content-driven information that continuously saturates our lives. Through the different artifacts, we follow a teenage character and her interactions with different worlds; the physical world (her bedroom), the digital world (screens), and her internal world, in the form of a visualized internet "rabbit hole". The final piece intends to convey a slice of her life that reflects a blurring of digital and physical realities.This project was created using a combination of Unity 3D, computer graphic art, and AI generated imagery using prompt engineering.

Explore our character’s room (ili) on itch.io

User interface explorations with early web 2.0 aesthetics

Multiple AI generated images to create the surreal “rabbit hole”

CAM Collective is made up of three multidisciplinary artists, Carisa Putri Antariksa, Amreen Ashraf and Maria Denise Yala. Their work focuses on worldbuilding, speculative storytelling and researching the various ways in which life and digital technologies are entwined. CAM’s works primarily use new media technologies and digital materials to construct immersive storytelling experiences. They have participated in the following exhibitions and residencies: Coding Resistance fellowship with FUTURESS (2022), ADA-DADA Residency, South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Toronto (2021), UKAI Migration, Toronto (2020) and cyberhaze, OCAD University, Toronto (2020).

CAM can be found on their website and Instagram.

Visual Credits:

Rabbit Hole Code: A tunnel experiment in WebGL inspired by the effect seen on Fornasetti
Pixel Cursors designed by Macrovector - Freepik.com
Pixel art mystical elements collection by Pikisuperstar - Freepik.com
Gradienta from pexels.com

Sound Credits:

1.TIK TOK SONGS You Probably Don't Know The Name Of V25
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KmOIV1IYw&list=LL&index=8
3.Eye makeup videos from tiktok / tiktok / tiktok tutorial
4.beauty hacks tik tok compilation |makeup tips,skincare,eyeliner tutorial,makeup hacks,eye makeup
5.GRWM for the first day of school ~ tiktok compilation
6.Kendall and Kylie Jenner's Voices Sound So Different Now tiktok https.....moon
7.KPOP SONGS ~ vol 1 [Copyright Free Music]

Sound effects from pixabay.com
Ringtones from zedge.net
TikTok music from MTA x aline by dnldjackson22