envelop: blueprints for unhad hugs
interactive website, audio, printed zine, video, live event, 2020
Support from 18th and Union Arts Space, Daisy Chain Press, and On the Boards, Seattle, WA
Collaboration with Alyza Del-Pan Monley.
envelop: blueprints for un-had hugs is a website, a printed zine, and a live event. The web-based portion is an interactive, menu-style website where users click on various images, animated GIFs, time-lapse videos, emojis, and text blocks to follow 18 possible different narrative paths, each culminating in a video of a unique, physicalized hug. Each path contains content to see and hear, and also prompts to draw, taste, touch, and feel things in the participant’s environment. This video shows a portion of the content on the website.
The live event was hosted by 18th and Union Arts Space. The space was divided into four sections:
This event was designed so that people could enter the project at their own pace—it was at a point in new reemergence in public spaces, and participants could socialize and mingle, or enjoy quiet privacy as their comfort allowed.
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interactive website, audio, printed zine, video, live event, 2020
Support from 18th and Union Arts Space, Daisy Chain Press, and On the Boards, Seattle, WA
Collaboration with Alyza Del-Pan Monley.
envelop: blueprints for un-had hugs is a website, a printed zine, and a live event. The web-based portion is an interactive, menu-style website where users click on various images, animated GIFs, time-lapse videos, emojis, and text blocks to follow 18 possible different narrative paths, each culminating in a video of a unique, physicalized hug. Each path contains content to see and hear, and also prompts to draw, taste, touch, and feel things in the participant’s environment. This video shows a portion of the content on the website.
The live event was hosted by 18th and Union Arts Space. The space was divided into four sections:
- interact: there were 4 computers and sets of headphones available for participants to move through www.unhadhugs.com at their own pace.
- respond: there was a Prompt Response Corner with a table full of craft supplies to be used to respond to the creation prompts on the website and/or to be used freely. There were paint markers that participants could use to draw hugs all over the gallery space’s large, street-facing windows.
- watch: there was a small theater space where the endpoint videos were streamed on loop.
- read: there was a reading area where people could pick up and read the printed zines.
This event was designed so that people could enter the project at their own pace—it was at a point in new reemergence in public spaces, and participants could socialize and mingle, or enjoy quiet privacy as their comfort allowed.
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