Lauren Moffatt
Artist LAUREN MOFFATT has been awarded the S+T+ARTS4Water II Challenge and STARTS Residency in association with BETA Festival & ADAPT/ Dublin, Ireland, to work with Digital Arts Studios and the Port of Belfast.
This residency seeks to explore the challenges faced in developing and maintaining wind energy farms offshore and creating green infrastructures for the future of ports. You can read full details about her residency here, and view a recent presentation of her work to our XR Lab members below.
Lauren Moffatt is an Australian artist working between video, performance and immersive technologies. Her works, often presented in multiple forms, explore contemporary subjectivity and connected bodies as well as the limits between virtual and physical worlds. Over a number of years she has developed a body of work pivoting on stereoscopic photography and video and informed by the history of cinema and broadcast technologies. Lauren is interested in how the dimension of depth in moving image can be used as a storytelling device. Her works have been screened and exhibited most recently at Museum Dr. Guislain, SAVVY Contemporary, FACT Liverpool, the Werkleitz Festival and at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Lauren completed her studies at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Paris VIII University and Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
About The Project:
Chorcorallium is a simulation of a singing coral reef that is generated at the base of an offshore wind farm. Disused human inventions have populated the sea floor around the turbine bases, and the coral and other animals use this sculpture garden as an artificial reef on which to grow. This procedural environment is built collaboratively with sound and sculptural assets contributed by its audience offline during workshops and/or within the interactive experience.