Jeremy Couillard “JEF: An expansive video project”
Times Square Space
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JEF is a cosmology, inspired by world building techniques in sci-fi literature, luxury space consumerist fantasies and human/computer interaction. The project takes on many forms from animation and simulation to video games and stand-alone video objects. JEF begun with an animation short, HOTR Home Furnishing (Phillips x Daata), about a colonial alien on Earth who visits an Ikea-like warehouse that has been converted into a labor camp where Earth’s former elite are forced to put together furniture for regular people.
Subsequent iterations have included a 40 minute animated look into the lives of the aliens and humans for Infinite Objects, an Instagram project @thebasssquared with the The Bass Museum of Art, Self Portrait as a Dingus, which shows an alien as he goes about his mundane life on Earth.The project culminates in an expansive video game, released on the Steam gaming platform, where we control the body of the alien who wakes up with its memory erased and quickly learns its home planet has been taken over by a spa cult. The player must help the alien escape and go on intergalactic adventures to learn its identity and what its JEF stands for.
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Schedule
from February 29, 2020 to March 15, 2020
Opening Reception on 2020-03-02 from 18:00 to 21:00