UWS Arts & Media Showcase - 21-22 BA (Hons) New Media Art

BA (Hons) New Media Art

BA (Hons) New Media Art is a two-year undergraduate degree programme that aims to provide a creative and critical learning platform where students explore diverse relationships between art making and emerging media technologies.

New media technologies and contexts introduced each year encourage students to become experimental in learning and utilising technologies in art making, critical in situating their practices at a historical, social, cultural and political context, and autonomous in identifying applications of their creative practices within or across fine art, conceptual art, installation art, film, animation, graphic design, illustration, projection art, sound art, interactive art, immersive art, community arts or/and education.

New Media Art captures the technological innovations which now inform and connect all aspects of contemporary life – providing a way to understand and communicate the relationships between people, places and things. This creative field is now recognised as being one of the fastest growing creative art forms in the world today – with exciting directions being forged by an upcoming generation of artists who embrace the intersections between creative art practice and new technologies.

Natalie Dunbar - B00391239 - Final piece.mp4

Natalie Dunbar

Work by third year 'Projection Art' students at Dunure Castle

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 1).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 7).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 8).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 5).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 2).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 6).mp4

Copy of UWS NMA Dunure Projection Event(Group 3).mp4

Third year Moving Image and Time-based Art work

Kareen Lattka

"The main aim of the project was to express the juxtaposition between a lived experience versus being the onlooker. The story is shown in two perspectives, a figure skater's perspective that puts the viewer directly in my position as the skater and a bystander perspective that puts the viewer in the position of someone on the sidelines, watching from a removed position. While I have used mediums familiar to me, digital painting, I experimented with new techniques within the software to create the effects. The main software's I used are Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, and Cargo".

Lauren Masterton

For this installation piece I wanted to create a room filled with self reflection, inspired by the contemporary issues regarding religion, and how light is not always good, just as dark is not always bad. Setting up, I used a number of mediums, including 2 two-way mirrors, 2 4k cameras, 2spotlights (one warm light, one dazzling L.E.D) and 2 projectors all central to the space. This combinations led to an interesting overall effect producing 3 projected screens on various walls. Yet looking into the mirror was not what was being projected but rather a side angle. The effect was mesmerising. It could have been easy to stand there all day and lose time pondering.

Rebecca Allan

My piece is a short film in memory of my late grandmother and how the sudden impact of a stroke turned her life upside down, in turn triggering early-onset dementia. It is in the style of a short film, the beginning looking much like a crafting Vlog, then abruptly changes into a disturbing stylistic interpretation of the destructive force of this illness. the sculpture featured is made of plasticine and fitted with small polaroid pictures.

Kieran Mackenzie

A digital diptych focusing on themes of anxiety, the creative process and perceived lack of self development. Created through use of frame-by-frame rotoscope animation and keyframe animation, the work contrasts the depiction of negative thought loops with tangible progression through the development of my previous ink drawings. The audio was made using a digital drum beat generator, bass guitar and loop pedal.

Kirsty Anderson

This piece explores my relationship with grieving my late parents. Using some picture of my parents when they were in their teens i wanted to explore the gap between them being people i never knew and me now being someone they will never know. It is a mixed film that combines live action video footage, stop motion animation and cyanotype development. The video piece is accompanied by a book that will take the audience on my journey as i explored these difficult topics, and developed my ideas that play out quite abstractly in the film. The theme of Autumn Leaves comes from the song, Forever Autumn.

Fourth year honours student websites

This is a selection of websites created by fourth year students to share their creative work - each site includes examples of work developed as part of the New Media Art programme.

Sandra Laurenson

Colin Walker

Robert Mackie

Finlay Hamilton Sardesai

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