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Claudia Brăileanu

Claudia Brăileanu is a transmedia artist based in Bucharest. With her work she explores digital technologies as tools for modeling novel social configurations and virtual worlds as grounds for building social and cultural alternatives able to shift the focus on what could be different. She studied in Bucharest and Leipzig and holds a MA in painting, a medium that she is particularly interested in and that she researches through the lens of emerging technologies. Her practice encompasses 3D animation, virtual reality, installations, painting and prints.


Landscape with Olive Trees, 2022

Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022
Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022

Landscape with Olive Trees is an interactive landscape painting.

The overarching theme of the work centers on the influence of digital technologies on the perception and representation of the natural landscape. Alongside perspective systems, religion, social and political context, technology has acted over time as a filter in relationship to the natural landscape, generating patterns of interpretation and representation.

Painting is a significant resource for understanding the role of technology in a specific historical context. Over the last few decades the process of painting shifted, reflecting a blurred boundary between disciplines, incorporating new material elements and the technology of its time. Digital technologies and the experience in virtual worlds are reshaping social practices, perception, creativity, and the transformations that the concept of painting has undergone are an expression of these changes. The definition of painting expands while the medium becomes more and more self-referential.

Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022
Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022

Landscape with Olive Trees is part of Claudia Brăileanu’s Obsolete Landscapes body of work, a materialization of an ongoing research on landscape painting in the postdigital era. The work is also a meditation on the fragility and resilience of nature and on the role of digital technologies in understanding the current meaning of nature.

Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022
Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive scene, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022

The composition of the work is outlined by 3D scans of old olive trees – including a tree that is over two thousand years old – from Zakynthos Island in Greece and a 3D modeled painting with digitized canvas textures. The landscape painted on the canvas was created by extracting satellite topographic data from the same location.

Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive elements, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022
Landscape with Olive Trees, interactive elements, Claudia Brăileanu, 2022

The environment is described in the intro flythrough, after which the viewer/player is placed on the canvas amidst fragments of trees that are floating around the static two thousand years old olive tree trunk. The viewer/player is able to walk on the canvas interacting with the environment and play a video during which the overall composition of the work can be altered.

*[Landscape with Olive Trees is designed for desktop only]

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Dynamic Links continues our main initiative to commission Romanian digital artists for new works. This was coordinated by Nicoleta Mureș, one of the artists that were part of our portfolio and previously commissioned for our website. Thus, continuing our purpose to create a network of digital artists that help and grow together. With the intention to support more interactive endeavors, the current project brought together programmers and digital artists that collaborated in the creation of one desktop interactive application. The works will be available on our website spam-index.com.

Dynamic Links is funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration and does not necessarily represent the position of the AFCN. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the results of the project may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

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