[ISEA2014] Artists Statement: Clea T. Waite & Lauren Fenton — MetaBook: Book of Luna

Artists Statement

2013, interactive media,  display objects  

The Book of Luna, a transmedia Meta-Book is a physical, illuminated manuscript merging sculpture and film and literature. It is a tactile poem in a cinema of pages integrating text and paper with embedded media technology. Its subject is a lyrical history of humanity’s empirical and allegorical relationship with the Moon.
MetaBook: The Book of Luna is presented as an electronic Wunderkammer. An expanded cinema installation combining text, sculpture, interactive media, magic tricks, and dynamic video within the enclosed architecture of a tabletop object, The Book of Luna narrates a poetic essay about the Moon’s place in the historical imagination. The nature of love, madness, the unknown, and our capacity for the sublime are amongst the intellectual passions that have crystallized around our only satellite. clea-t.de/metabook-the-book-of-luna

  • Clea T.Waite is a research artist- scholar and experimental filmmaker whose motion pictures balance unconventional aesthetic exploration with innovative realisation.
  • Lauren Fenton is an emerging interactive artist and Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Practice as the University of Southern California, USA