Welcome to the BA (Hons) New Media Art 2023/24 digital showcase. Our art students have developed a diverse and exciting range of multi-media projects and exhibitions. Though this page shows a small selection of these from this academic year, we continue to celebrate all our students' developing practices, critical inquiries and experimentation through making.
Fourth Year - Research Projects
Laurel Snedden
The Sitting Room
(Installation with audio)
This art practice research explores the act of storytelling through interrogating the materiality of inherited domestic photographs and, from this, the power of constructing an archive through a mixed media installation. My approach allowed the research findings to develop from a process of interrogating a large volume of family photographs I was given, through making, material interventions and recorded conversations with those closest to the photographic content.
Nicole Kenny
Creative Signs
(picture book, posters, animations and website)
My underpinning research question was:
‘In what ways can digital picture books be created to inspire and educate young people between 16-24 on British Sign Language?’
Having existing knowledge in BSL can serve as a great source of inspiration as I strive to raise awareness and educate others about deafness through using dynamic forms, colours, and expressive gestures to convey visual narratives.
Kirsten Rendered Final.movAnnette Rendered Final.movAnn Rendered Final.movLee Fleming
Taking a Stance: Fulfilling Empty Hands
(series of moving portraits made in collaboration with community members)
...using the practice of moving portrait, utilising micromovement to engineer a ‘still’ passive role yet enabling the participant actively occupy the space of the frame of the lens. First, a dialogue must be established to employ a narrative inquiry for each individual participants perspective. This narrative is the driving force behind the practice as it 'is a way of understanding one’s own and others’ actions, of organising events into a meaningful whole and of seeing the consequences of events and actions over time.' (Chase, 2005 cited in White & Hede, 2008). All this continual dialogue and collaboration with the participants 'contributes to new discourses around rebalancing the personal history of women’s engagement with filmmaking, helping to ensure that their experiences are better represented.' (Bolser,2021)
Euan Tait
Relief: Printing: Process
(print, lino and woodcut)
I explore the processes of relief printing, with different techniques and processes — the fundamental process that was to create an image that could be reproduced. Looking at a range of different surfaces in the relief and what can be achieved on lino and woodcut. Through the process I record abandoned and disused buildings.
projection_b00369847 (240p).mp4Lauren Elgar
Untitled
(installation, projection with audio)
Since 2022, I have been working as a professional carer besides my art practices, and the idea of care has become an inspiring concept for my art, which I critically explored in this practice-based research project.
Third year - Moving Image and Time-based Art
'Sounds Out of Time'.movStefano Facchini
Sounds Out of Time
(video artwork)
inspired by John Cage, exploring tempo, sound and duration.
Kukeri.mp4Daniel Georgiev
Kukeri
(installation - film on loop)
exploring identity and inherited cultural narrative.
West Coast Girls.mp4Emma Wesencraft
West Coast Girls
(animation)
working with found artwork, drawings and archival research.
final project file.mp4Luke Duthart
Untitled
(animation)
exploring spatio-cultural relations.
Student Collaborations
Projection Art Group A Video (Performance).movProjection Art
Falyne Frearson (third Year) & Ben Foster (fourth year) worked together on a projection performance as part of their Projection Art work.
not a phone shop.mp4Fresh ayr_Full HD 1080p.mp4Green Screen workshopping with Jupiter Artland at Ayr
As part of their Moving Image and Time-based Art work, art students and fourth year film students came together to experiment with green screens and make some rapid-response collaborative animations on Ayr's High Street, the day of making was part of Jupiter Artland's public programme and Rachel Maclean's installation Mimi Store.