Perlin Noise, 2024
Interactive Website
Peril Noise is an interactive website that uses p5.js to create flow fields driven by Perlin noise. Users can interact with the site to influence the patterns, which change and evolve in real time. The project highlights the ebb and flow of visual elements, mimicking natural movements and offering a hands-on experience with generative art.
Transient Traces, 2024
A Vintage Postcard Collection
Sentiments of Yesterday is a curated postcard project that offers a nostalgic exploration through history, love, ruins, and the passage of time. Each postcard is carefully selected and edited to evoke a sense of nostalgia and sentimentality, blending the art of curation with precise photo editing techniques.
From romantic vignettes to snapshots of historical significance, this collection weaves together captivating narratives through curated imagery and meticulous editing. Delve into the heartfelt inscriptions of yesteryear, each carrying stories of love, admiration, and cherished memories.
Static Communication, 2023
Mixed Media Video
In the age of Web 3, smartphones, AI, and social media, we are connected more than ever; technology has become a common denominator in the way we interact, communicate, and walk in this world. This video analyzes the historical timeline of communicative devices and allows the users to self determine the implications and societal gains of communication technology. Humanity in the post pandemic era experienced a cultural reset: the merge of digital and physical lives, where curated self presentation is most valuable. At a time where our attention becomes currency, we must question when attention becomes richer than experience.
Through a combination of archival footage, academic interviews, and animations, “Static Communication” explores the idea of being disconnected as a result of hyperconnection, offering a thought provoking reflection on the human experience. This video examines both the societal and psychological effects of technology, and asks the viewer “How can we use technology to enhance, rather than replace, human connection?”
Internal Interiors, 2022
Interactive Website
Savannah Archinal’s Internal Interiors, is an interactive website coded in p5.js library of Javascript; this site explores the relation of Interiors and Exteriors, to the human experience through a user guided experience. This site is designed to showcase the duality of internal and external realities.
Anaerobic Artforms, 2022
Digital Garden & Analog Map
This website is a digital garden maintained and curated by Savannah Archinal. This garden tends to the beautiful things that invoke intimate feelings. These blog posts dig into the historical depths of artforms while planting personal sentiment as contrast. This website was created with the intention of accessibility and producing low carbon emissions. To showcase this website in physical form Savannah turned her blog posts into playing cards.
Money Money Money,
2022
2D Adventure Game
Savannah Archinal’s, Money Money Money is an interactive video game coded in Javascripts p5.js library, Money Money Money features various illustrations created via Illustrator. This 2D adventure game mocks the current human experience within the capitalist consumer culture that is America. Archinal expresses both the environmental impact and the distortion of self concept as a result of excess media and material consumption.
Go Home Gretchen, 2022
Interactive Game Website
Savannah Archinal’s Go Home Gretchen, is an interactive website coded in p5.js and p5.play libraries of Javascript, this site is follows three interactive game experiences, using pre existing games such as Brick Breaker, Ping Pong, and Search and Seek. This game follows Gretchen, a young girl stuck in a nightmare, desperately seeking home. The project follows a haunting dreamlike experience that discusses the conceptual nature of home, as well as its urgency.
Death of the Laundormat, 2021
Typographic Landscape
Savannah Archinal’s Death of the Laundromat, is a visual study of SF laundries within inner sunset. In this piece Archinal discusses the mass closures of Laundromats in San Francisco as a result of gentrification. Within this typographic landscape Savannah uses both type and photographs of laundromat signage to create a visually compelling publication examining closures of San Francisco’s public resources.
Heart, 2021
Zine
Savannah Archinal’s Heart Zine tells a story of the emotional attachment to her bedroom post pandemic lockdown. This zine is a fusion of typography and Savannah’s film photography that features objects of her affection. This piece gives intimate details of the creators private life and the memories attached to physical spaces.
House Fire, 2020
Mixed Media Collage
Savannah Archinal’s House Fire is a mixed media postcard created to depict her state of mind after her time spent isolated from the Covid-19 pandemic. House Fire references the dwindling fire that is the world while recognizing the desperation that lies within forward. This piece was created with illustrator, matchbooks, and family obituary segments as an ode to her Uncle.
Contact
sav.archinal@gmail.com
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