2004 Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3976 2013-05-22T06:31:48Z 2013-05-22T06:31:48Z Snibe, Scott http://hdl.handle.net/1813/12918 2009-06-09T01:09:21Z 2009-06-08T19:04:32Z

Title: 2008 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal Authors: Snibe, Scott Abstract: "Wisdom tells me I am nothing; love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." --From I am That, Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Sometimes we spontaneously feel love - through the kind words of someone else, a smile, or admiration for someone's selfless actions. How can we cultivate such thoughts deliberately and consistently? Buddhists meditate in order to attain these states reliably. Meditation's not for everyone. This installation is an attempt to turn a meditative thought process into a projected reality embodying the Buddhist notion of spontaneous love.

2009-06-08T19:04:32Z Snibbe, Scott Sona http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3977 2006-12-14T07:04:14Z 2006-12-13T21:13:28Z

Title: 2004 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal Authors: Snibbe, Scott Sona Abstract: I will create two interactive narrative video works comprised of large projections that react to and interact with viewers. Each work presents a silhouette narrative of a prominent Christian Scientist. The first work concerns the events surrounding Mary Baker Eddy's discovering and founding Christian Science in the 1860s. The second presents moments in the life of the American surrealist and Christian Science practitioner Joseph Cornell between 1930 and 1950. The Christian Science faith is best known for it's belief in the power of the mind, and the mind's ability to heal the body of illness - a belief that echoes the ideas of interdependence, emergence and emptiness, that inform my work. Both pieces will be synthetically constructed narratives. The projected imagery will be silhouette performances in the tradition of 19th century magic lantern and shadow theatre. These performances, however, will be algorithmically generated, so that their specific actions and movements are always slightly different. These movements will be rooted in live recordings made on a soundstage and in animations, but will primarily exist as computer models. Viewers will interact with a work when they walk between a projector and a projection on the screen. Viewers' own shadows will instantly become an integral part of the projected scene. They will feel an immediate sense of presence at a phenomenal level, through the reaction of snow, rain, and scenery to their shadows. Their movements and actions will also have a narrative effect, advancing each work from scene-to-scene in ways that reflect viewers' physical behavior.

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