Halen King – Media Arts | AUArts Grad Show

Memento Sentire - Video Statement www.mementosentire.com

Memento Sentire

Memento Sentire (2021) is a website that explores the divide between digital content and emotional context by trying to reconnect the two. In doing this it is trying to ask how users might try to reconsider this connection when under a different light, inviting an uncommon and more personal interaction with the content. This invitation aims to encourage self-reflection and awareness, in hopes of calling attention to the occurrence of insensitivity and lack of consideration towards experiences of grief and death in online spaces.

Balance - Animation 2D animation for live installation, 2020. While this animation is one that is both endless and unresolvable, one key factor within this cycle is a momentary existence. These moments appear as elements in the environment that grow and die. In these moments of change mortality provides a perspective of infinity in a way that is unique because we will never really be able to experience anything that doesn’t change or end.

Balance - Character Model - Life “Chaos” and “earthbound” were two words I considered when drawing life. These were the leading direction to deciding color pallet, a body appearing as a mass of roots, and how these appendages move when animated. The overall ambiguity of sex/gender I believe helps deny thoughts of fertility/motherhood (as I believe life equals nature before nurture,) and the overall monstrous appearance is an attempt to challenge an immediate association with “good.”

Balance - Character Model - Death Regarding death, I considered the opposing words “still” and “cosmic”. This led to a complete abandonment of the traditional bones that commonly represent death. I chose to represent death as a humanoid silhouette to challenge the traditional monstrous representations associated as "bad."

Balance

Balance (2020) is a 2D animation that shows the path of two characters; one of life and one of death. The animation is projected on the walls of an enclosed gallery space, looped so that the cycle of these pathways are continuous. As these characters traverse around the environment, the scenes change with them, as they repeatedly undo the other’s work as life sprouts from death and death from life.

Convergence - Video Statement https://oldskings.wixsite.com/convergence-memory

Convergence - Photo Documentation 1 Installation Documentation 1, 2021.

Convergence - Photo Documentation 2 Installation Documentation 2, 2021.

Convergence - Photo Documentation 3 Installation Documentation 3, 2021.

Convergence - Photo Documentation 4 Installation Documentation 4, 2021.

Convergence - Animation Traditional and digital animation, 2021.

Convergence

Convergence is an interactive video artwork which incorporates 2D digital and physical methods of animation, as well as audio narration. The animation explores “mark making” in memory creation, as well as explores the visual (animation) and audio (voiceover) relationship between these memory formations. The video is projected on a wall, where a real piece of paper is taped underneath. Visitors are invited to draw on this paper while the projection plays.

Memory File Corrupted Video Installation, 2021. https://oldskings.wixsite.com/memoryfile-corrupted

Memory File Corrupted

These compilations were created with the intent of exploring the relationship between memory from mind, and recorded memories such as through photographs, drawings, notes, and video. While the memories that we form can change (even becoming unreliable,) the physical means we use to record and preserve memory can also turn undependable. Old notes that lack context, photographs that are so old they become faded and disconnected from the present, drawings that have forgotten the motive behind the idea, and the unreliability of digital technology: each of these devices used to record memory (untechnical or otherwise) become subject to decay.