Ongoing Exhibition (Apr. 26 - May 15, 2023)
Lobby at 370 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY

This project was sponsored by and made possible through the Tisch Pro Funds Grant. Thank you to the Office of the Dean and the Tisch Undergraduate Student Council for their support.

“PFIFF” is a collaborative interactive installation that explores the relationship between our bodies and space: physical, digital and augmented. This multidimensional installation draws from Italian futurism and the laws of movement to question where our own bodies end and the matter around us begins. The first layer features a video of a contemporary dancer performing an experimental electronic musical work; the second layer is a 3D printed sculpture that encapsulates the dancer’s movements into a solid form, and the third layer is an AR environment that brings the sculpture to life using motion capture.“In this installation, I wanted to address the way in which we, as physical beings, manifest in a space and our relationship to the natural and artificial world we live in. I am interested in how this will shift as augmented and virtual reality become more popular in our everyday lives, and how we’ve become less present in a digital world.” - Senaida Ng (Clive Davis Institute, ‘24)

Artists:

Senaida Ng (Clive Davis Institute, ‘24) - Artistic Director, Producer, Composer
Budmen Industries - 3D Sculpture Design & Fabrication
Lorraine Landry (Collaborative Arts, ‘23) - Dancer
Qi Gao (Interactive Media Arts, ‘24) - AR Animator
Alex Muzila (Film & TV, ‘26) - Director of Photography
Julio Arana (Film & TV, ‘26) - Gaffer
Ricky Kapoor (Film & TV, ‘24) - Editor
Antonio Vescio - Set Production Assistant

A special thank you to our project coordinator, Tom Beaver, who is always so supportive and available when I have questions, to Errol Kolosine for introducing me to the Budmens and allowing me to share my project in his class, to Jhanele Tiffany Green, Noah Simon, Rob Ryan, Marlon Evans, Luke Bunn and Michael Bernard for their help in securing and preparing spaces for the project, and to the ITP department for lending their equipment to us. Also thank you to Caroline Wolfe Papocchia, and Samantha Skinner for helping coordinate everything behind the scenes.