Charlotte Gould. Juried Artist
Constellations
WebXR on the Styly platform
Artist Statement
The Hekateris Dance is a playful interactive Augmented Reality Artwork to prompt audiences to imagine how humans may evolve in the distant future as we are impacted by climate change. Artist Charlotte Gould uses speculative fictioning in her artwork to develop 3D animated future beings using Augmented Reality. Having downloaded the Adobe Aero Applicationand scanning a QR codedancing avatars can be viewed through a mobile phone and participants can join in to see each other dancing with the characters. While the avatars dance in a contemporary stylethe artwork references the Hekateris danceborrowed from Greek mythology as a celebration of nature. The project draws on the past and presentthrough mythology and natureto imagine what we may be in the process of becoming for survival on a planet impacted by climate crisis. The artwork aims to celebrate the natural world beyond the human and to foster hope through discussion on tangible actions that can contribute to a solution to reduce global warming.
Styly link: Hekateris Dance
About the artists
Charlotte Gould is a senior academic in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton. She has taught all levels of Visual Communication and supervises PhD students. Through her practice she explores the potential for interactive installations in digitally mediated public spacespromoting public participation through shared experience. She has developed Extended Reality artworks to prompt play and interaction across social and cultural boundaries as well as interactive nonlinear narratives and speculative fictionwhich explore how we can communicate the threat of ecological crisisraising public awareness to trigger change in behaviours. Through interactive installations she tests the boundaries of open systemsto offer opportunity for diverse audiences to co-create artworksimpacting on the way we engage in the urban environment and public space and contributing to a collective memory of place in a global context.
Credits: Dr Charlotte Gould