Eîdos
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Description: The definition of eidos is something that is seen or intuited: an idea, an essence. Eidos is an experiential breathing pacer that will help you restore your nervous system through conscious breathing. Allow the art and music to guide your breath...
Per Aspera ad Astra
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Title: Per Aspera ad Astra (through hardships to the stars) Description: link: http://www.lucaserasini.it/invito/ad-aspera-ad-astra/invito-2 This virtual project was carried out in May 2020 during the first phase of the Covid-19 Pandemic and I think it represents very well the concept of synergy and interdisciplinarity using different media to produce new and...
Students’ Eating Corner
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery interval="3" images="2889,2890,2891,2892" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text]Description of the artwork/creation: My website focuses mainly on students on campuses and food online orders and deliveries to students’ residences. Especially during this Covid 19 period, you won't need students crowded in canteens, so they order from my site then I...
The E-Waste Funeral DUT Edition
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The E-Waste Funeral DUT Edition The E-waste Funeral DUT Edition is the third installment of an arts-based research project initiated by Dr. Dylan McGarry and the ELRC (Environmental Learning and Research Centre) in collaboration with Dr. Rachel Baasch and the SARChI (South African Research chair in...
Distance
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The interactive artwork "Distances" virtually brings together people who are not able to touch themselves physically. This artwork was born in April 2020 in response to the Coronavirus crisis that forced us to be isolated and to have physical distances from the others. In this installation, 2...
To Pimp a butterfly
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Title of the artwork: To pimp a butterfly Description of the artwork: Although the butterfly and caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same. While a global pandemic has been a looming risk for decades, COVID-19 has come as a shock to society, health...
Unmasking Gender Experiences in Covid-19
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sule Ameh James (Ph.D.) Research Associate, The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre, University of Johannesburg Abstract My exhibition features five works that unmask some lived experiences of African women in 2020 and speaks to some changes that happened. Things changed in several ways when the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020...
Contaminations
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Contaminations“ is a series of photos started in April 2020 during the Covid-19 crisis. The spine appeared to us as a strong symbol of these new physical and social distances born and experienced during this period of isolation. These distances profoundly affect us by transforming our...
Asikhule Sonke – Grow as One: A transdisciplinary immersion using 360° Virtual Reality
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A multimedia visual creation, presented as a 360° Virtual Reality music video, this collaborative creative output explores the central theme of UNITY IN DIVERSITY through the juxtaposition of science and art. The concept of 360° video is not new. There are many works of dance...
3(D)ef-f-ectffect: Design’ing an AV Glitch Performance as the Post-pandemic Future
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Description: Dealing with this dystopian present-future of design and post-pandemic technology, we propose appropriating these technologies and use them as an art-power-aesthetics, producing a 360° video performance for VR glasses. It’s a manifesto for the suppression of boundaries between cinema, design, emerging media and the arts...