Vancouver artist fuses graphic fiction and virtual reality
BC artist Sean Karemaker is taking his graphic novel Feast of Fields into a new dimension with the help of North Vancouver’s Seymour Art Gallery.
The gallery is holding a special exhibition featuring Karemaker’s art that also employs virtual reality (VR) technology. The VR experience allows visitors to “explore the story” in their own way, sharing space with the characters and their settings. For those less tech-savvy, Feast of Fields will also be available to view in the form of 14 six-foot drawings on the walls of the gallery, or in a more conventional book format.
The project brings together the worlds of print shops and virtual reality arcades, and suggests future possibilities concerning the fusion of graphic design and game design. It may attract art, comics, and technology aficionados from Vancouver and surrounding areas like Burnaby and New Westminster, so interested groups and individuals are urged to book in advance.
The VR event will take place on the afternoon of February 16, with the artist in attendance. Feast of Fields is a graphic memoir based both on Karemaker’s own childhood in British Columbia and his mother’s experience growing up in an orphanage in Denmark. The book was first published through Conundrum Press in 2017 and received favourable reviews from Broken Pencil and the CBC.
Karemaker has previously worked in illustration and game design, making this virtual-reality gallery show a natural fit.
The gallery is holding a special exhibition featuring Karemaker’s art that also employs virtual reality (VR) technology. The VR experience allows visitors to “explore the story” in their own way, sharing space with the characters and their settings. For those less tech-savvy, Feast of Fields will also be available to view in the form of 14 six-foot drawings on the walls of the gallery, or in a more conventional book format.
The project brings together the worlds of print shops and virtual reality arcades, and suggests future possibilities concerning the fusion of graphic design and game design. It may attract art, comics, and technology aficionados from Vancouver and surrounding areas like Burnaby and New Westminster, so interested groups and individuals are urged to book in advance.
The VR event will take place on the afternoon of February 16, with the artist in attendance. Feast of Fields is a graphic memoir based both on Karemaker’s own childhood in British Columbia and his mother’s experience growing up in an orphanage in Denmark. The book was first published through Conundrum Press in 2017 and received favourable reviews from Broken Pencil and the CBC.
Karemaker has previously worked in illustration and game design, making this virtual-reality gallery show a natural fit.