Lauren Warrington, Inside Elsewhere ˚ ʚÏɞ


Inside Elsewhere˚ ʚïɞ ˚ is a generative 360° environment that examines memory, connection, and loss through glitched image files and imagined reality. This work references my childhood experiences at Tomb Sweeping Day, a yearly ritual where offerings like flowers, food, and joss sticks are made to ancestors. Reflecting on the past, I process these personal moments, taking familial photos of ancestors and distorting the data into glitched files that texture this realm.I feel a parallel between a glitched file and a fading memory; in both instances information has been lost, altered, or distorted. Weaving these images into a landscape, I create a portal to another reality populated with spirit symbols and connectors. The models and animations are made with Blender and compiled into Unity for scripting and dissemination. Through this project, I invite participants to reflect on their memories and stay connected to those who have passed on, moving beyond linear time, toward the cyclical portals that surround us.



Lauren Warrington

laurenwarrington@gmail.com
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Projects:
On Tracing Memory 
Somewhere in Mid-hyperspace
Inside Elsewhere ˚ ʚÏɞ ˚
Her Biomorphic Bacterial Babies 
Ancient Plains


Site is under construction, more is coming soon!  



Lauren Warrington is an artist and researcher living between Saskatoon and Toronto, who works with digital and physical space. Her practice is grounded in her experiences as a “mixed-race” Chinese Canadian on the prairies and engages the complexities of how cultural memory is created and the possibilities of its recontextualization through digital space and physical forms. She is interested in how technological and material systems can articulate diasporic subjectivities, functioning as repositories and mediums through which identity is negotiated and expressed. 

Lauren is also a founding member of Biofeedback Collective, a three member artist collective focused on creating programming for underrepresented and emerging artists.