Ryan Boyd, Michael Sinn, Iris Andrici, Alfonso Benitez

Named after the free song used as background music for this piece of art, Young Philosopher's Club is an experimental animation using Unreal Engine that was made for a Game Engines class in the Digital Futures program. The piece began as a work without meaning, but after viewing it in completion, was interpreted by one of the artists as a representation of the ego and its interaction with the unconscious/subconscious mind; the ego being the neutral character walking forward through life within the narrow view of the conscious experience while the images, desires, and symbolic associations of the subconscious bubbled up to the surface. The ego ignores them and moves onward to the end goal of transcendence, which is interpreted through the shedding of itself and the ascent into the sky.