KATELYN JANE FERENCZ (ARTSOPISSFACE) – RMIT School of Art Graduates

Composite Award.

CYBERROT: CORPOREAL DECAY INSIDE LIMINAL TECHNOLOGIES
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IT'S ROTTING
        DECAYING
        SPREADING
        DISTORTING
        GLITCHING
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CYBERROT is an experiment into how immersive and liminal affective technologies can transfer 
feelings associated with altered states of mind of dissociation (detaching from reality and the self).
Utilising virtual reality (VR), immersive installation practice, spatialised sound and 3D digital 
environments, this project aims to blur the lines of reality, through a digital (un)reality.


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CYBERROT:
(noun)
                1. a reference to BRAIN ROT, applied to the sentient digital system, rotting, as its sense
                  of reality deteriorates all the while creating endless layers far from the outside world.

(adjective)

                2. described the state of a consciousness being absorbed by the system, falling deep through
                   its layers away from what is considered...real.

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ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), ‘CYBERROT: LAYER 003: FLESH FOREST’, 2023,
[video still]

ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), ‘CYBERROT: LAYER 001: CENTRAL ORB SYSTEM’, 2023,

[video still]

ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), 'CYBERROT', 2023, [install version 2], data projection, CRT monitors, stereo sound

ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), ‘CYBERROT’, 2023, [install version 3], data projection, 5.1 surround sound, Meta Quest 2 VR HMD

ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ), 'CYBERROT VR', 360 video.



ARTSOPISSFACE (KATELYN FERENCZ) is a Naarm-based artist, working on Wurundjeri land. 
They are a video, sound and installation artist exploring the conscious and unconscious mind, dream realms, nightmares, hallucinations and memory through convulsions of electronic sound,
digital visuals questioning reality and existence in the technological world when we cling to one thing that defines us:
 consciousness, something yet to proven and locate. Informed by transhumanism and surrounding sciences, liminality, 
video game theory, digital horror, psychological horror, internet subcultures and aesthetics such as weirdcore, 
The Backrooms and liminal space, they attempt to blur the lines of reality through immersive technology.

instagram: @artso_pissface

2023, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours), Discipline of Art

KATELYN JANE FERENCZ (ARTSOPISSFACE)