The XR Lab holds monthly presentations that are an opportunity for members to share their practice, current projects and ideas with the group for peer feedback.
This month, our presentations will be led by Lauren Moffat, who was awarded the S+T+ARTS4Water II Challenge and STARTS Residency. Full details about her residency can be found in our news post, click here.
Lauren will begin the presentations at 11am to introduce her practice and residency project ahead of the series of workshops that she will be holding at our XR Lab, and other venues across Belfast, over the coming weeks.
The presentations can be attended by members in-person but non-members can join us by zoom. Please email richard@digitalartsstudios.com for the link invite.
During the upcoming workshops, she will be asking people to participate and contribute to her project Chorcorallium, creating visual imagery generated using AI with descriptive words.
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.