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Clarkson University assistant professor of digital arts Alex Lee is exhibiting a new animation from through Oct. 17 at Trinity Square Video in Toronto. Lee's animation, "Lucid Dreaming," is a …
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Clarkson University assistant professor of digital arts Alex Lee is exhibiting a new animation from through Oct. 17 at Trinity Square Video in Toronto.
Lee's animation, "Lucid Dreaming," is a two-channel, double-sided, synced looping video featuring virtual Sigmund Freud ruminating on artificial dolls and automatons through passages of E.T.A. Hoffman's story "Der Sandmann," while navigating through 19th century-inspired dream sequence landscapes. The animation runs for 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
"The abject nature of the dialogue from the true voice of Freud serves to highlight artifice," Lee said in a prepared statement. "Particular sections of passages selected focus on the character Olympia, who is revealed to be an automaton in Hoffman's story. Freud references Der Sandmann heavily in his 1919 essay 'The Uncanny,' ruminating on the wax-work figures, artificial dolls and automatons, playing at the notion of perceived agency within avatars, self and the other."
