Today we’d like to introduce you to Jessica Anderson and Sebastian Monroy.
JESSICA and SEBASTIAN, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
The first indie mobile game I played was his — something he made with our two best buds at a game jam — and I was delighted by how experimental and artful mobile games could be. I had no clue who Sebastian was, but I was building a 22-foot steel geodesic dome, and fabricating the cover, and projection mapping it.
We met through a dear friend on an occasion to eat psychedelic mushrooms in the park and listen to Kishi Bashi perform. We fell in love and make art together. I do conceptual design, fabrication, projection mapping, and other things; Sebastian designs, programs, creates poetic computational art, and other things, too. We’re getting married next year.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
We create digital art — interactive installations that respond to movement and sound, immersive art experiences that tell stories or reimagine our perceptions of reality. That’s what transforms us and give us insight into our own perceptions and world views.
We’re into the possibilities of extending sensory experiences to create new ways of being in the world that we otherwise couldn’t have without the seemingly-magical flexibility and potential of computation. Watching someone hold a conversation with our artwork, put thought into their interactions, and allow it to play with their perception — even teach them something — is, to us, a sacred experience.
We use the game engine Unity because it’s made to support real-time input and interaction, among a lot of other tools — we can control live visuals with a MIDI controller, immerse you in VR, or reach a huge audience of smartphone users.
How can artists connect with other artists?
Find someone whose work you admire in your city or community or school, and offer to help them out with something useful that you can do. It’s fun to get to know people through working with them and learning from them.
And do all the meetup stuff, too. Find whatever you are personally into creatively, and use meetup.com or other affinity group or skillshare platforms to find your people. We’re all over the place. Right?
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
intooutof.io
Buy our art @ intooutof.io (!!)
Become our patron! https://www.patreon.com/intooutofstudio
See our work at SXSW Visual Media Experience 2019. I’m optimistic about our proposal. We’re going all-in on immersion, nature, and existentialism.
Keep up with our work here:
instagram.com/intooutof.io
Keep up with our sketches and vibes here:
instagram.com/smokelore
instagram.com/mommas_momma
Contact Info:
- Website: intooutof.io
- Email: intooutofstudio@gmail.com
- Instagram: @intooutof.io
Image Credit:
All images are the work of Into Outof Studio.
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