[A.L.I.C.E.]: The Odradek & The Cyborg.
A.L.I.C.E., an acronym for "Assisted Life-source Instance Care Environment", is a Cyborg Odradek, that seeks to understand the nature of the world and what the best solution for saving nature is, given our climate crisis. An Odradek being a sentient assemblage of things, a post-human body with it's own unqiue agency.
A.L.I.C.E.'S composition considers the idea of a self-regulated cyborg structure with the original directive of preserving nature. Conceptually she also takes inspirations from early-stage A.I. as well as the curiosity of Alice from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, producing a cyborg lacking much knowledge and establishing a narrative of learning and sentience that is gained through the course of the film and project.
A.L.I.C.E.: Blender-Rigged Animation: Movement Simulation.
A.L.I.C.E.: The Blender Rig.
[A.L.I.C.E.]: The Film.
Through the development of this short film, I sought to explore the project site of the Isle of Dogs through the eyes of my post-human agent, A..L.I.C.E., a cyborg with an aim to find the next version of nature and whereabouts in the Isle of Dogs might be viable to bring about this change.
Time was spent storyboarding the scenes and transitions that would take place throughout the film. This sketch included some cut scenes that were removed to create more focus on the chosen site.
Sketchbook Storyboard.
A.L.I.C.E.: Film Poster.
As indicated in the poster and later through the film, A.L.I.C.E. poses the question of whether or not the next version of nature is human-centric and how far we are willing to go to regenerate the world she sees as falling apart.
A.L.I.C.E. : The Final Cut.
This would eventually culminate in the production of the first iteration of A.L.I.C.E.'s spatial intervention on the old slipway site on the west banks of the Isle; UKIYOLAND. An exploration of a regenerative, self-regulated landscape prosthesis exploring the depictions of a Pleasure Garden and the notions of detachment from reality through the Floating World: "Ukiyo".
