Ian Truelove

Collapsing Skin: Expanding Painting Through New Digital Technologies

The research shown below explores the practice of painting through an exploitation of newly accessible digital technologies. The work is informed by the science of materiality in the field of quantum physics and related philosophical discussions.

Of particular importance is the idea of skin: as a surface of the human, as a point between the classical and quantum realms, and as an impossibly thin digital skin. Flat digital paintings are used as the starting point for the construction of an immersive virtual reality environment. 

The VR artwork is developed using Unity and C#, and is available to download from the Steam Store here:

bit.ly/skinscape

Read about the ideas that underpin the practice here:

bit.ly/truelovephd