The Brittle Epoch by Bryn Oh

The Brittle Epoch is an art experience to download from Steam

A short walking narrative for people who enjoy relaxed exploration. In this experience you will walk the environment in first person listening to a narrative that is triggered in certain areas. It is less a game and more an immersive artwork.

Download The Brittle Epoch here

There is also a machinima of the story The Brittle Epoch

A group of children are brought by a singularity AI to their new home in an abandoned subdivision. This story follows two of the girls, Flutter and Juniper, who explore the houses during a winter storm, interpreting what they find within. This is an immersive short story (one hour) that is part two of a trilogy.

Part one is seen through a machinima video called Hand

About the Artist

Born in Toronto, Bryn Oh attended the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and studied Fine Art Drawing and painting, receiving the George A Reid award for painting. Subsequent to that the artist attended the Toronto School of Art as well as Seneca College studying computer animation. After OCAD the artist became represented by XEXE gallery in Toronto later known as KWT Contemporary. Bryn’s oil paintings are collected internationally. In 2007 Bryn became interested in creating immersive environments in virtual reality spaces as a new media artist known as Bryn Oh. Since then Bryn’s work has featured in magazines such as Vogue, in movies and in galleries and museums worldwide.

Exhibitions include the Jewish museum in Berlin with European director Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke, Manege Museum in Moscow, Russia, “Danse Macabre” with Peter Greenaway in Basel, Switzerland, the 17th Biennial of Cerveira, World Expo in Shanghai (Spanish pavilion) Nuit Blanche in Toronto and others. Bryn’s work is part of the curriculum for several colleges and universities with a course on Bryn’s work at York University taught by Dr. Caroyn Steele. Bryn has received several new media grants from the Ontario Arts Council and a Canada Council for the Arts grant.

Bryn Oh also created a virtual environment to help heal soldiers with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) as a commission for the United States military.

Artist Statement

Bryn Oh’s artistic focus is in the way modern society is affected by technology, ranging between human/machine and machine/machine relationships. Often we consider technology to open channels for people to interact and engage socially, however, the opposite can occur where people become isolated within their own personal bubble, separate and witnessing the world from a distance almost as a product with brittle popularity. Bryn’s work expresses a yearning for meaningful connections within the new technological realm that often contains human remoteness. Bryn builds virtual reality environments that convey the juxtapositions between human emotion and machine sentience. I combine poetry with a melancholy narrative that explores the themes of connection and belonging.

Image credits: The Brittle Epoch by Bryn Oh

For more information: BrynOhhh@gmail.com

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Bryn wishes to thank the Ontario Arts Council for their generous support.