Barnsley born artist Cara Proud connects literature and art through immersive, interactive experiences. Currently completing a Masters in Games Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, she combines her interest in speculative science fiction and extended reality to create interdisciplinary art games. Her future goals are to continue to exhibit her work and further her research in digital arts through a PhD.
In collaboration with Barnsley Civic, she joined a group of artists to produce an festival called Art Abart Tarn. She had her work exhibited at Light Up Lancaster with Northern Design Festival, at Technologica Collective's 429: Too Many Requests online exhibition where she received The Fiction Award and at the Imperial War Museum North, in a multichannel installation commemorating the 1945 Pan-African Congress by reacting to poems from the local community.
Her current creative projects are:
An exploration in creating post-processing effects in Unity to capture the Science Fiction artist Moebius' visual aesthetic. This will take shape as a piece imagining Barnsley's Post-Industrial identity as a Sci-Fi planet.
A VR game that turns contemporary reading attitudes into an interactive experience. This is a collaborative project visualising how there are layers of media that effect how we experience narrative. In the game the player is tasked to follow the path of a written story, if the player moves away from the path they are exposed to fourth wall breaking worlds.