Alexander Stewart’s Void Vision is an abstract science-fiction short film in which the line between the real and the simulated are blurred and distorted; a space where doubles, twins, duplicates, re-creations, and copies merge.
Combining a science-fiction sensibility with the aesthetic of early CGI animation experiments, Stewart presents rotating arrangements of lasers and duplicated women that fade in and out, appearing as both photographed scenes and computer-modeled recreations. The audio track, incorporating text from Philip K. Dick’s 1981 novel Valis, features an improvised electronic score and a voice articulating theories about the mind and the universe.
Alexander Stewart: Void Vision is part of the Arts Center’s Ways of Being theme. The featured visual and performing artists recontextualize our past, reorient our present, and project new, viable futures. Collectively they ask, what if?
Image: Alexander Stewart, still from Void Vision, 2018; 16mm as digital file; 7:45. Photo courtesy of the artist.
https://www.jmkac.org/exhibition/alexander-stewart-void-vision/
