Bella Virgilio

Media Arts & Sciences major

I am primarily a digital artist with music and printmaking experience interested in visualizing space, time, self, and the moment. My body of work represents my passion for mark-making through technology, featuring experiments with depth, light, motion, creative coding, and sound. Some of my past projects include experimentation with shadow-based animations, video game music, digital collaging, and mixed reality.

What is this, some kind of joke?

digital media, video, audio

video still of crumpled notebook paper with transparent text with each letter individually backed in black reading 'WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF JOKE?' Smaller plain text at the bottom reads 'April 1, 2020'

Before the year changed course, I hoped to create an immersive and interactive audiovisual representation of a mirror, combining reflection, projection, and sound to present the viewer with an altered version of themselves. Since leaving Wellesley, current circumstances have forced me to confront the monotony of life indoors, accept the relentless forward march of time, and find meaning in the subtle variations that distinguish each day. As a result, my work has changed shape significantly. For this phase of my project I've take inspiration from On Kawara's Today series, presenting each day in sequence as a collage of text, data, sight, and sound. In this digital journal of sorts, the only consistent feature from day to day remains the presentation of the date. Through this process I've been searching for a new way of interpreting time and space, and I still hope to present the viewer with a digital reflection, but one that abstrats and documents the passage of time and the weight of each unremarkable day.

video still of a digitally drawn landscape with layers of green grass under purple gradient sky with cresecent moon; white text at bottom reads 'April 14, 2020'

digitally drawn image of thin white rain over purple background with white text at bottom reading 'April 29, 2020'

thin black lines loosely gathered into wispy arrangements spelling out the words 'HELP ME' with black text at bottom reading 'April 4, 2020'

white text with vapor trail effects on black background obscuring much of the writing; the rightmost word appears to be 'alone'; small white text at bottom reads 'April 11, 2020'

digital drawing of many overlapping white rectangles with black outlines on pink background; black text at bottom reads 'April 15, 2020'

digital drawing of red slash over photograph of a bare human back; red text at bottom reads 'April 16, 2020'

video still of purplish mountains in front of blue sky with white clouds; the word 'wake' is merging with the top line of the mountains; white text below reads 'April 25, 2020'

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