SYNOPSIS
“Rebis” is an experimental poem co-written by Kylie Supski & ReVerse Butcher; & a Virtual Sculpture & Soundtrack by ReVerse Butcher, presented as a 7 minute videopoem cinematic. It was completed 29 April, 2023.
Virtual Sculpture & Soundtrack were made natively in VR using Open Brush & Virtuoso VR, & a HP Reverb G2 VR Headset. Featuring hand-made textures constructed using pen, acrylic ink, & vintage paper stock, then digitized into 3D substance materials using the Adobe Substance Suite. Cinematic made using Unreal Engine 5.1 & Adobe Premiere Pro.
Human consciousness has always been forked. Duality is not the only way. Perfection & putrefaction, the double slit experiment, everything (un)seeable is both a wave & a particle. Alchemy hid historical scientific investigations behind metaphors lest the church of popular opinion crush the wonders of inquiry beneath its boot heel; in doing so a powerful visual language stuttered into the collective subconsciousness. Metaphor as visual assonance–looks like, sounds like, thinks like, links like. Apparate across time and arrive in the futurepresent nowever, where Rebis has evolved to represent brand-new forks in consciousness. Rebis revolves endlessly amongst the waves & the particles, where thunderstorms have become raves, & illuminated manuscripts have become ephemeral virtual immersions. In this age, and in this interpretation, Rebis is a symbolic meditation on art-official-intelligence. Made painstakingly by hand & sculpted natively in VR (with no AI used in the production of this artwork), Rebis symbolizes the fork between the organic and the algorithmic – & ponders our fear of; & lack of language for; ‘perfect balance’.
Rebis | Still Cinematic/Videopoem Frames
Virtual Sculpture/Art made in VR (Tilt Brush), 3D renders made with Adobe Stager.
Rebis | WIP 3D Renders & Textures | Adobe Stager
Rebis | WIP Wireframes | Nomad Sculpt for iPad
VISPO Texture/Material hand-made with vintage paper stock & acrylic inks, & then turned digital using Adobe Sampler. Textures used in "Rebis".
