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Liquid Crystal Display

Elizabeth O'Brien

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I'm an artist based in between Newcastle and East London. My practice blends digital animation and sculpture to investigate the way that we experience reality in a world that is becoming ever more virtual. Through a pluralistic approach to making, my practice attempts to address the entanglement of technological, social and natural networks. I draw on Gaian philosophies and sci-fi writers like Octavia E. Butler, while also looking at the aesthetics of beyond human communication, namely within mycelial and cephalopod species. I aim to create artefacts that reimagine anthropocentric narratives.

I'm an artist based in between Newcastle and East London. My practice blends digital animation an...

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...She finds herself in the last room. Only a little artificial light is permitted by thin window slits that line the black painted walls. She blinks. Her pupils constrict as her body works to adjust to the darkness. She listens carefully and although muffled by the headphones that she anxiously dons, it's as though the room whispers. Adjusting to the space, she's confronted by a cluster of strange structures that appear to bloom from the floor and ceiling; some effortlessly hover just off the ground. Their expectant faces seem to crane towards her presence. One of the artefacts is made of smooth, thin bands of varnished wood that close around each monolith like a skeleton. The other seems to be coated in an eerie mycelial dust. As she moves around the room light spills from digital animations that are projected at the heart of several architectural compositions. This light catches the luxurious, crystal skins of the objects making them shimmer cautiously...

Final work

  • Image shows a black, architectural sculpture resting on a black velvet backdrop.
  • The picture shows a shiny black sculpture with one side covered in crystal rhinestones.
  • Shiny black sculpture with three compartments, displayed against a black velvet backdrop.
  • image depicts a fuzzy wooden sculpture that has an ornate design. It is painted white.
  • image depicts two fuzzy wooden sculptures that have an ornate design. They are painted white.
  • The image on the left shows me holding the top half of the sculpture over the bottom half. The image of the right shows textural details.
This picture shows a white architectural sculpture with a digital animation projected on top.

Ninti [activated]

[2024]

painted wood, polystyrene balls, looping animation, digital projection

68 x 9.5 x 85cm

  • Image shows the sculpture up close, the piece is architectural and composed of lots of thin bands of wood with a projection illuminating the middle.
  • A still of the moving image work and how it interacts with the sculpture as a whole.
  • Image shows a black, abstract sculpture mounted to a wall that is also painted black. There is a video projected on top of the sculpture.

Research and process

Image shows three screenshots from digital work. They depict lots of lines like wires or roots that are enmeshed.

Video compilation of some animations I've begun to develop over the course of this academic year.

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Liquid Crystal Display

...She finds herself in the last room. Only a little artificial light is permitted by thin window slits that line the black painted walls. She blinks. Her pupils constrict as her body works to adjust to the darkness. She listens carefully and although muffled by the headph...

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