Graduate student Weilu Ge was awarded Best Narrative for FEED, created as part of IMUU, at SAT Fest in Montreal. The film will be part of a screening event running March 27, 2024 through May 4, 2024 at the SAT dome in Montreal. IMUU is an artist collective that utilizes light as paint and music as dialogue to create an episodic narrative about a futuristic dystopia. The team consists of animator, composer, directors and creative technologists doing experiments in creative expressions via VR/AR, interactivity, and performance in transformative physical or virtual spaces.
An earlier, immersive film version of FEED was presented in the OMNI theater at the Museum of Science in Boston in July, 2023 as part of Waveforms, a multimedia art occurrence organized by Boston Cyberarts. The next, web browser app, version of FEED is scheduled to be presented in June, 2024 at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Brisbane, Australia as part of their virtual gallery program. An updated installation version of FEED will be shown in a Creative Practice/Critical Inquiry event later this semester.
Previously, Ge was awarded the Best Sound prize at SAT Fest 2022 for Astro, created in collaboration with Weidi Zhang. Astro has since been shown in various dome film spaces. Weidi and Ge will present a new collaborative dome A/V project, Wayfarer, at the SAT dome later this year.
ABOUT FEED: FEED takes the audience on an immersive audiovisual journey in a panopticon-like complex. While a tracking apparatus constantly scans and monitors everything in the space as if an autonomous being with man eyes, the audience plays the role of a computer mouse, a curious listener and user walking on a long scrolling feed, passing by various characters in their internet cubicles and potentially getting lost in this internet labyrinth full of joyful colors and sound events.