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xara alexander is a multimedia artist studying under nyu's interactive media arts bfa program

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interactive projects

flower galaxy

Radial Pond

2024, web browser based art using 3JS software

interactive landscape made with 3JS and Blender, deployed online. radial pond

4 second gif of animated figure with microexpressions

Face Control

2022, digital art

how can computers aid humans in expressing their identity? video game streamers sometimes use 2d avatars as an alternative to showing their faces, i was simply exploring the technology they used and found the program interesting as a medium for animation

sculpture

3d collage front view 3d collage side view

3d collage

2022, multimedia

I was inspired by the deviantart user @celluleneuronale in the design of the central figure for this sculpture. The most prominent thing about the artists style is their linework, which is sketchy, almost elementary. I created my own piece using bits of wire, cardboard, printed cutouts, circuit boards that I took from an old radio, and discarded plastic.

baby fetus sculpture

becoming plastic

2022, multimedia

This sculpture was inspired by old mac computers, and inside of the structure is a 3D printed (3D modeled) fetus. This sculpture expressed the idea of being born plastic and of geometric, lifeless objects gaining vitality.

hand sculpture

plastic loveliness

2022, milk jug, wire

This series was a reflection on tech being inescable. The hands were designed as if holding mobile phones, although the physical form of the phone was not included. I decided to use plastic as my medium to bring out the idea of waste and consumption. Each facet of the hands was individually selected from the milk jug and glued onto the wire frame.

2d art

kitty_cat

2023, video

An exploration of animation with a very rigorous process. This project was not intended to be deeply emotional, but independently developed its own personality throughout the process.

digital drawing of a girl using grey tones

Silk Maker, 2023

2023, digital

I started this peice as the first drawing in a series of porn drawings to sell online. The peice became somewhat sad, and I wound up enjoying it as an expression of myself, growing up and becoming desensitized to the experience of being objectified.

highly pixellated image of raw store packaged meat highly pixellated image of a pigs head in plastic packaging highly pixellated image of a raw steak

watermark designs

2023, digital

collage of sprites

Moomoo Saves Him, 2024, video game

Moomoo Saves Him is a simple, singleplayer game built for desktop. The player enters the game as the main character Moomoo, and explores the structures surrounding her. As the player progresses, the comic panels scattered throughout the game gradually come to together to form Moomoo's narrative.

I fully tapped into this idea when I called my boyfriend on a vacation in France with my parents. I had felt super distant from him from the past couple weeks, I was so far away from him that I was scared that I wouldnt be able to make him understand my emotions and how I felt as a person in the moment. I wound up telling him my rough ideas for this game. Everything I told him came out so rushed and taught that I realized that all the plot points I'd planned correlated with pain I was feeling now with my parents, as well as the struggles living abroad (in France) when I was just a kid.

I plan on finishing this game August 2024.

github repo :3
cactus progress shot within onshape

Sad Cactus, 2024, interactive sculpture

Sad Cactus is a sculpture of a cactus that retracts its spines when touched, like a sensitive animal.

This project was started around May, and was put on hold because of a lack of resources. Estimated completion September 2024.

link to documentation

find me on instagram @xaraalexander