ClaudiaHart, “Dark kNight,“ 2012, 3minExcerpt of an 12-minute 3D animation for looping installation

Dark kNight, 2012, 12-minute 3D animated loop for installation, sound by Claudia Hart and Mikey McParlane Dark kNight, 2012, is Hart’s response to Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film, “The Dark Knight Rises,“ depicting the attempt of one of her avatars to break free of the simulated world behind the screen. In creating “Dark kNight“ (spelling intentional), 2012, Hart felt it was time to begin a migration out of the sanctuary cacoon of her earlier automatons. She represents the attempt of this defiant one to break free of the simulated sanctuary world behind the screen. The popular Christopher Nolan “Dark Knight Rises,“ is a film about escape from imprisonment and the powers that deem who is and isn’t to be imprisoned. With the film’s two highly independent, physically athletic and defiant female characters, both of whom have escaped their own entrapments, Hart was immediately prompted to envision her own restless, racially-hybrid female avatar trying out v