A universe of opalescent ecosystems, Diana Lynn VanderMeulen’s Beyond the Starry Mountain is a video experience developed using gaming platform Unity Technologies. Extending from a series of collages, Beyond the Starry Mountain provides a conceptual shift in experiencing an idea across multiple mediums. Un-real landscapes are textured with a digital mashup of past works - including installation based projects, 2D collage and material documentation. Viewers are invited to lounge in visual meditation and digitally insert themselves into the landscape using an augmented reality filter. Find the filter via @dianalynnvdm on instagram.
Beyond the Starry Mountain
2020
Video HD
20:43mins (endless loop)
Edition 2/ 10
(as custom designed USB)
Transformative Encounters is a short visual narration including 3D animated materials, video recordings and poetic elements that refer to a multitude of bodies and their consecutive encounters with an unfamiliar organism that take place as they intersect, feed, touch, alter, discard, contain, compartmentalize and acknowledge each other’s corporeality.
A xeno-entity and its abstract scaleless anatomical characteristics become the central figure of the narration as it attempts to observe, interlink and communicate with others while its mere unfamiliar existence is developing both into a hindrance and a challenge to identify itself and get identified by the swarm.
Transformative Encounters
2018
Video HD
3 + 2 AP editions
We need to move but we are going nowhere, we need companionship but even our dogs are becoming robots.
Cosmic Dog (on the run)
2020
Video HD, Edition of 3
Radiances is a series of paintings in motion. Through a combination of 3D animation, video synthesis and digital manipulations, painterly textures and organic forms emerge to create animated landscapes.
Radiance III
Video 4K, 2'08 Loop, 2018
Edition of 5
Radiances is a series of paintings in motion. Through a combination of 3D animation, video synthesis and digital manipulations, painterly textures and organic forms emerge to create animated landscapes.
Radiance IV
Video 4K, 2'19 Loop, 2018
Edition of 5
Radiances is a series of paintings in motion. Through a combination of 3D animation, video synthesis and digital manipulations, painterly textures and organic forms emerge to create animated landscapes.
Radiance V
Video 4K, 2'22 Loop, 2018
Edition of 5
Radiances is a series of paintings in motion. Through a combination of 3D animation, video synthesis and digital manipulations, painterly textures and organic forms emerge to create animated landscapes.
Radiance VI
Video 4K, 2'22 Loop, 2018
Edition of 5
Eyes of Plants (Left Iris)
2019
Three-channel video, 4K, 24:53 min
Edition 2/5.
Commissioned by Gasworks, London
Eyes of Plants
2019
Three-channel video, 4K, 24:53 min
Edition 2/5.
Commissioned by Gasworks, London
Eyes of Plants (Right Iris)
2019
Three-channel video, 4K, 24:53 min
Edition 2/5.
Commissioned by Gasworks, London
Untitled (FLR-13)
2020
single channel loop
1 min 16 seconds
Edition size: 3+ 2 AP
Untitled (Active User)
2020
single channel loop
37 seconds
Edition size: 3+ 2 AP
Claudia Hart
Kiki.obj
.gif (file format)
2019