Short Film
Transfusion
debut experimental short animated filmmixed media, sculpture, 2D/3D
created with support from CARFAC SASK’s foundational mentorship program,
University of Saskatchewan’s CAPACITOR program,
Canada Council Emerging Media Arts Concept to Realization grant.
Jo gets possessed right before their older brother's rebaptism.
Home of Diaspora
concept, script direction, storyboards, digial animationfor CBC Saskatchewan 2022
Raw
paper animation, digital animation, post prod.CBC Nova Scotia, 2020.
Screened at Lunenberg Doc Fest 2020, Animation Festival of Halifax 2021.
Experiments
Transfusion, Crocodile Scene Sculptures
metal sculpture, woodworking, fabric, paint, ceramic, digital painting, photoshop, cinema 4D.10 in x 14 in x 14 in
created in Regina, SK as part of the CARFAC SASK Foundational Mentorship Program, mentored by sculpture artist Frans Lotz.
this is a miniature set created for my experimental animated short film, Transfusion (2023-2024).
Below (6 images, process)
Periwinkle (2021)
Dialogue Animation test plasticine, marker, carving tools, toonboom harmony, cintiq
video:
ROOT short film trilogy
Baskethead
Tang
paper on glass explorationscreened at NSCAD Expanded Media Showcase 2019
CW: strong language
Exhibition
Thoughts of a Digital Archivist
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre
Window Gallery, Regina SK
Augmented Reality, Multimedia Art Installation
Sept_01-Oct_16_2020
featured on gallerieswest
THOUGHTS OF A DIGITAL ARCHIVIST: by Cyril Chen (they/them) is an evolving piece in response to their role as an archive assistant at Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre.
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‘The archival process is one of re-animation. An introspective endeavour in post-spectatorship. You become friends with unfamiliar people and places. You seek within yourself the same nodes of reflection, striving for sensitivity or humbleness towards these bodies of work; not to be simply reduced to a spreadsheet data point.
Can digital files become haunted? I look at images of eyes and hands who have reigned before me and I wonder if they see me too. In real life, I sort through boxes of documents and brochures, and out of date light fixtures, handled and touched for art exhibited in my absence.
Digital media possesses an uncertain finality. We feel these underlying anxieties. We try not to be shallow. What is not tactile but still holds place in the world? An illumination of the metaphysical.
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on permanence,
on illumination,
on ghosts
Projection
Mom’s Garden - 妈妈的菜园 (2021)
Screened at AFH 2021, ddis Video Art Festival (Ethiopia, 2022). WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, 2022). Created for Plants in Contemporary Art class at University of Regina as a NSCAD visiting student in media arts.
Produced in Regina, Saskatchewan.
110 in by 38.5 in
Mom's Garden - 妈妈的菜园 : An ode to paper animation; Cyril archives their mother-tongue as they draw from the roots of their Mother’s Garden, planted in Regina Saskatchewan with seeds carried over from Yangchun, Canton China.
Screening Video:
Illustrations created in exploration:
dying rose
10” x 14”
pastel
10” x 14”
pastel
dying bouquet
12” x 17”
pastel
12” x 17”
pastel
Neutral Ground 40th anniversary party Archive projection (2022)
Neutral Ground Artist-Run Centre, Nov 2022, Regina SKVideo:
Photos below (1-2) by Yuji Lee
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