Softbody is a meditation on mediated movement and mutable form. A 3D-rendered figure, animated through motion capture and processed via image-to-image translation, dances and tumbles through the ambient architecture of the animation software interface. Rather than existing in any single frame, the body emerges through motion: disoriented yet graceful, legible only in accumulation. The software's prescriptive structure dissolves into a blur, revealing the slippage between data and embodiment, control and surrender. Softbody treats technology not as a tool of precision, but as a threshold into ambiguity - a space where identity and context unravel into fluid, speculative presence.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Tara Rose Morris is a mixed desi new media artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto), Canada. She uses technology to create live performances, immersive installations, and artifacts that propose fantastical worlds of embodiment, imagination, and mirage. She is particularly interested in the “invisible interstices that lie between the frames” (McLaren, n.d.), taking frames to mean not just keyframes but also bodies, identities, contexts, datapoints, structures and interstices to mean not just inbetweens but also connections, abstractions, memory, latent space, translations, flickers. She sees technology as a threshold to spaces that refuse these “frames”, allowing us access into liminal ontologies that allow us to connect more deeply with self and with each other. She has shown various video and VR standalone works, including with Gray Area, SXSW XR, VIFF Signals, Superchief Gallery, and NFT NOW. She has developed real-time visual projections for InterAccess, Zora, and Superchief Gallery. She has been an artist in residence with AVAX and Nebraska Art Farm and she is currently a member of NEW INC Y11, focusing on art and code. She has a BA in Media Studies from Pomona College and an MSc in Fiction and Entertainment from SCIArc.