Stefanie Loveday

Taking Mount Diablo’s geological formations and the designated “Trail through Time” as a starting point, I will create virtual artifacts as a speculative future for geological processes.
Remapping rock formations into digital constructs, the work will use VR as a tool for abstraction, looking at what is communicated in the process of translation from real to virtual. The geological forms will then be reinstantiated from virtual to physical by building a sculptural replica of the virtual artifacts. The surfaces of the original geology will be recorded and made into a sound recording, providing a sensorial interpretation of the geological artifact’s form.

The project will potentially result in a VR / AR environment and video installation incorporating sound and sculptural elements.
