Date of Award
Spring 5-3-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Film and Media Studies
First Advisor
Kara Lynch
Second Advisor
Zachary Nader
Academic Program Adviser
Andrew Lund
Abstract
It has been nearly a decade since I last visited Singapore, a place I am connected to yet an outsider. Reflections of Little Red Dot is a mixed-reality experience that animates my archive of drawings, videos, and 3D imagery from everyday Singaporeans in 2015, the year their country celebrated its 50th birthday.
Walking through this liminal mixed reality space, we hear how citizens are personally affected by the rapidly developing landscape and erasure of personal and historical sites of significance while reflecting on our collective agency to shape the future of our environments. We are invited into homes where loved ones gather and taken on walks through gentrified historical streets and the island’s last village, glimpsing AI visions of distant past and future projections.
To empower us to carve our narratives and shape our undefined future spaces, this interactive work reinterprets the documentary film form by guiding us to navigate and experience an archive in a new way. This new way of remembering is rooted in the present, looking back at the past and forward to the future.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Chloé, "Reflections of Little Red Dot: An Interactive Mixed Reality Archival Experience" (2024). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1218
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Audio Arts and Acoustics Commons, Film Production Commons, Fine Arts Commons, Interactive Arts Commons, Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons