About
Field of Vision is a new festival hosted and curated by the band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The inaugural festival took place in Buena Vista Colorado in mid August of 2025. As part of Good Neighbor Music I ventured to the festival as creative tech support with an open ended prompt to elevate the experience with AR. We were selling a precious bootleg record that was the first record made from all recycled PET along with cover art from a poster designed by Jason Galea. My goal was to take this visual and create as many animations as I could that were both compelling and trippy, so that when an observer looked at the cover art through their phone, they saw a new trippy world emerge. By creating many different versions that played at various random intervals, it gave the viewers the sensation that there were infinite possibilities or visuals that were being generated live. Beyond the hoodwinks the visuals were also to add depth to the beautiful record artifact and make it something that people would cherish for multiple reasons.
Artist's Intention
But going back to the mini deception, it is interesting to consider that our working memory, especially when in a particular mental state at a music festival, can be our grounding for the expansive nature of an experience. This relates to technology in general in that we are at a point where many of us are experiencing it at a constant rapid pace, but not really considering how and what gets consolidated into memory. It makes one wonder how often they stumble across the same content, but with no recollection of the initial visit. There is something mystical and haunting about how our memory functions and how that relates to the way we consume information in the digital age.