Violet Forest | Fl♡♡ded

Editions: 50

Price: 50 tez

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Description

"Fl♡♡ded" is a browser-based 3D environment made with three.js. Inspired by PFP projects, the environment and 3D objects that surround the character change with each generated mint to create a unique meaning to the character's story.

Standing in a flooded area, the character is surrounded by objects that represent different anxieties and relationships to our world in 2022: rising gas prices, threats of rising sea levels due to climate change, the race for the adoption of renewable energies, and the absurdity of continuing to live through those anxieties in our urban and domestic lives alongside the natural world. The powerup or item floating above her head serves as her chosen item for mechanism of survival, sometimes mental, sometimes physical, sometimes a magical item that aids her escapism, sometimes a practical tool.

The 3D character was generated with AI tools. First the character was generated as a 2D image, then passed over to another AI tool to generate a 3D model from that 2D image. The skybox images, with the exception of the grid, were generated with a text-to-image AI tool, and are currently minted in the Cybertwee ♡ 2077 collections minted on tezos and ethereum, and can be found on the following platforms:

♡ https://versum.xyz/user/tz1RFy7xFU4jCkg8WD21FRtYg8f1g84PVYXX
♡ https://foundation.app/collection/cybertwee2077

Controls:
♡ Rotate around the scene by dragging the mouse
♡ Scroll up/down for zoom
♡ Sky items change position on reload
♡ View in fullscreen for best experience
♡ Can be displayed on a mobile device / tablet or touchscreen monitor

Biography 

Violet Forest (Violeta López, born 1990) is a Colombian-American creative technologist and digital artist from and currently based in Miami, Florida, United States. She was originally trained in film photography & video art and received an undergraduate Bachelor of Art (2012) from Florida International University. She then received her graduate degree in Master of Fine Arts (2016) at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Art & Technology program. Her artistic practice involves researching emerging technologies, methods, and tools to work creatively with game art, web art, VR/AR, 3D, computer vision, and AI art. She participates in open calls, artist residencies, and in-person + online virtual galleries, and is part of the Cybertwee collective and Digi-gxl collective. Her work has been shown at institutions like Birmingham Open Media (UK) & Panke Gallery Berlin for Vorspiel / Transmediale Festival.

Forest also works as a creative technologist using technologies like VR/AR, computer vision, DIY electronics, machine learning, 3D and app development and worked in Berlin, Germany (2018-2020) as a full-time employee at Volkswagen Future Center Europe making in-car prototypes for autonomous vehicles. In 2021 she completed a fellowship collaboration in Paris, France building an Android hand-tracking application to control an opensource arduino-powered prosthesis. In 2021, she was commissioned by Snapchat to make an Augmented Reality lens, and became immersed in the crypto and NFT community, collaborating as a front-end developer with the Tezos NFT platform Hic et Nunc. She is currently focusing full-time on working on her digital art practice & NFTs.

Social Media handles & links 

Website: violetforest.com

Twitter: @violet_forest

Instagram: @violetforest.js

Linktr.ee: @violetfores