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Category archives: Desperately unreal

The Compositor collaboration

The Compositor: reading the tunnels by turning them into a font.

Posted byAlexandra Crouwers11/09/2020Posted inDesperately unrealTags: collaborations, font, lettertype, letterzetter, The Compositor

Mistakes: the artist talk

HD, colour/sound, 20’20”, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidii, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement with Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, New York. This, of course, took place in another universe.

Posted byAlexandra Crouwers30/04/202011/09/2020Posted inDesperately unreal, Dioramas, Navigating the worldTags: artist talk, ecological grief, mistakes, solastalgia

Skeuomorphism

A skeuomorph object wants you to believe it’s made of another material: it’s an imitation-look. This post will expand.

Posted byAlexandra Crouwers04/12/201904/12/2019Posted inDesperately unreal, Research areasTags: imitation, simulation, Skeuomorph, unreal

A life-sized doll house.

Château de Breteuil near Paris, houses a collection of automata and period room dioramas, depicting historical events that may or may not have taken place in the castle. Visited Oct. 2019.

Posted byAlexandra Crouwers21/10/201901/11/2019Posted inDesperately unreal, Dioramaesques, Machines and Automatics, Navigating the world, Research areasTags: automata, Château de Breteuil, Efteling, Émilie du Châtelet, Fairytales, Period Rooms, Uncanny Valley, Voltaire

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