Art School from Bed

2023 - Present

Art School from Bed is a web series teaching art history and technique by and for disabled, chronically ill, mentally ill, fat, and neurodivergent people. While currently only short videos the first season of longer form videos is in the planning stages. Each episode will feature an example of an artist working currently or historically, connect their practice conceptually to an example project, and guide participants through the project giving examples of alternative modes of creation. Participants will be invited to share their creations on the community Discord, via dedicated hashtags, and to the project email. Shorter episodes will then be created to review and share back community contributions, specifically pointing out where each project made innovative and unique choices. 

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Self Frottage With Light

A narrated screen capture of making a 3D self portrait frottage (also known as a rubbing) in a virtual reality paint application.

TX Watson said this piece was “slowly leading me to comprehend things about the experience [of VR] that I couldn't possibly have imagined from scratch.”

How To Bootleg

Constructed from 3D scans of SFMOMA, How to Bootleg is an experiment in overlapping virtual and physical spaces. It can be watched anywhere but it is highly encouraged to watch it in a mobile VR HMD either in the associated galleries or before or after a visit. The second video sis documentation of a viewing experience in context.

VR/AR Sketchbook

These videos document the virtual and augmented reality sketchbook M Eifler kept in 2016.

Spherical Cinematography

As part of the research collective eleVR, M Eifler helped pioneer spherical/360 camera design, cinematography and editing techniques. Their research in the field: Spherical Cinematography 101: Scale and 102: Texture as well as their partner piece The Choreography of Attention are available on archive.org

Spherical Daily Vlogs

As part of the research collective eleVR, M Eifler helped pioneer spherical/360 camera design, cinematography and editing techniques.

From June 16th, 2015 to June 16th 2016 they published a spherical video every weekday. This project was a first of its kind at a time when spherical cameras could only record a few minutes of footage and editing technology for the format was still nascent. The original blog post about the project is available on arcive.org. The a selection of the videos are available in the following playlist.

Neveryday Unnaturals

Neveryday Unnaturals is a web series, a mixed reality genre spoof of popular beauty, lifestyle, and DIY web videos shot using a Microsoft HoloLens

Suki Sleeping

Suki Sleeping is a first of its kind 2.5D immersive animation. For a how to visit eleVR

The Way Home

This piece is a form of volumetric collage. It was captured using a handheld 3D scanner then rendered as a camera path using Maya.

A COLLABORATIVE WORK

“A Collaborative Work” and was made by Arletta Anderson, on dance, Mike Rugnetta, on audio and me, M Eifler, on video. The artists worked with curator Ken Becker to create a site specific work at the Wattis Institute for Art in San Francisco where it was originally shown as a VR experience along side live performance, projection and generated sound.

Play/Room

Play/Room is a library, a database, an art installation, a YouTube channel, a memory palace and an artist’s studio. Play/Room is a room-scale mixed reality installation in which every physical object is linked/related to a spherical video. The links are printed and attached to each object and can be inspected using a handheld screen. Each tag also has the title of the videos printed below the code. When an object’s code is inspected by a player the associated spherical videos show up on screen. The view point can be changed both by moving the screen and swiping with one finger. The objects, and thus their attached videos, can be moved and reorganized within the room.

Excert below, for full piece visits eleVR

Plain Fake Loading Bar

Plain Fake Loading Bar generates unique loading bars but nothing ever loads. The viewer simply waits and waits with no answers, satisfaction, or relief, an experience akin to the frustration of waiting but never receiving help from doctors when you have a complex disability. It was the first piece BlinkPopShift created in collaboration with Steve Sedlmayr.