Impermanent Dreams

CONCEPT

Birth and death. It is the birth of civilizations and evolution, of the digital era growing towards a mixed mediascape of dreams and fantasy. The infusion of dreams with the real is becoming a complex imaginative space for manipulation and metamorphosis, and that the emergence of strange spatial existentialism is tightly interwoven with dreams. The fantasy and desire are both the driving mechanisms of this dreamscape, and when the dream ends, so does the fantasy.

"If Adelmon is a city I am seeing in a dream, where you encounter only the dead, the dream frightens me."
-Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

This is a story of a girl who dreams of a strange psychedelic digital city. In the first panel she dreams of weird organic creatures with odd representations of bright colourful mechanical cities, hydraulic driven machines, funky routes and moving pixel screen trees.

The second panel is the death of a dream. The girl falls and she falls into infinity.

Flash animation for new media art installation.
Design and animation by
Joanne Loo

Music by
Pradashini Subramaniam
Zachary Chan

Special thanks to
Alvin Leong

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Thin Cities . 3

Armilla

Whether Armilla is like this because it is unfinished or because it has been demolished, whether the cause is some enchantment or only a whim, I do not know. The fact remains that it has no walls, no ceilings, no floors: it has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be: a forest of pipes that end in caps, showers, spouts, overflows.
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities




Rough 3D concept.

Thin Cities . 2

Zenobia

Now I shall tell of the city of Zenobia, which is wonderful in this fashion: though set on dry terrain it stands on high pilings, and the houses are of bamboo and zinc, with many platforms and balconies placed on stilts at various heights, crossing one another, linked by ladders and hanging sidewalks, surmounted by cone-roofed belvederes, barrels storing water, weather vanes, jutting pulleys, and fish poles, and cranes.
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities





Rough sketches and 3D concept.

Cities & Desire . 4

Fedora

In the center of Fedora, that gray stone metropolis, stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora.
-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities



Rough sketches and 3D concept.