Celine Tang -Tiny-Huge Floating Island
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Celine Tang was born in 1998 in California and raised in Hong Kong. In 2019, she received her Associate of Arts Degree at Pasadena City College. She is currently a student of University of California, Berkeley, studying Art Practice and will be graduating in Spring 2021. Her main focus is Digital Art for Game Design, exploring new technologies that can be applied to interactive entertainment. She has extensive experience with Unity, Maya, and Adobe Suite and developed many games with Unity, RPG maker etc.
Artist Statement:
Ever since COVID-19 hit America and quarantine started, reality is nothing but a jail. I have been trapped inside the same 800 square feet every single day, my human connections come from nothing but zoom classes. In this world where we are forced to be online, the line between online and reality is blended. I took the opportunity to explore virtual space and used virtual reality technology to create a fantasy world.
The audience will explore the small floating islands in an empty exhibition room wearing a VR headset, in the perspective of a small fairy, or a huge titan. We can give up our real identities and experience a new point of view from my headspace.
