Charlotte Cardon
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Project Lazarus
Why do we hunger for nature? What does it mean that we attempt to control and conquer it yet also escape into its serene embrace in order to regain a sense of a genuine life and humanity? These are questions that drive me in my artistic pursuit to answer our complicated and hypocritical modern relationship with emotional escapism into nature and the digital realm.Project Lazarus is an outdoor, interactive Visual Novel experience that explores the dystopian story of four characters in their conflicting relationship with nature and technology and how they emotionally resonate in response to an immersive emulation of both lifestyles. It aims to create an unconventional outdoor video-game-playing experience for the audience in which they are prompted to question their own conflicting emotional responses to the juxtaposition of these two immersive interactions within nature and digital/virtual technology. It tells this futurist story from multiple perspectives, illuminating the different outcomes we can pave for ourselves as we imagine now how we want to live in the distant future--as apathetic cyborgs or emotionally enriched humans struggling to survive in the wilderness.
Outdoor Nature Interactive Exhibition Set Up
Interaction with Visual Novel in Outdoor Interactive Natural Exhibition
Outdoor Nature Interactive Experience Set Up at Bonfire
Nature Interactive Experience at Bonfire, Contrast Between Outdoor Elements and Laptop
Interacting with Visual Novel in Outdoor Nature Experience Next to Bonfire
Project Lazarus Visual Novel: Natural Living Demonstration Scene Between Two Characters
Project Lazarus Visual Novel: Tower Scenery with Four Main Characters
Project Lazarus Visual Novel: Multiple Choice Selection from Cyborg Characters
Short Sneak Peek of Project Lazarus Visual Novel in Demonstrated Outdoor Interactive Experience
Complete Project Lazarus Visual Novel Gameplay