Vision Statement
Was nature a place of calm for you during Covid isolation time? What images, sensations, and sounds do you remember when you think of those moments in nature?
Through collective creation and the App ArtiVive as a tool, we created mixed-reality sculptures with Augmented Reality (AR) to transmit our feelings and emotional connections with these natural places.
Moving with Nature is an Augmented Reality workshop that we created during my master’s program MA Digital Narratives with my classmates and our coordinator Jimena Aguilar. This experience was developed for the Zip -Scene Conference in Budapest on October 2nd, 2021.
The experience
We began with a moving meditation guided by Eliane Eid, intending to take the participants mentally back to nature and additionally break the ice inside the group.
After that, we divided them into smaller groups and start the discussion to hear the experiences in nature of every member of the team. During this process, the participants were motivated to share pictures, sounds, and videos attached to their memories.
Following we used those images to develop a collage that could unify all these feelings, thoughts, and experiences. Using an image as an anchor point we design an overlay with our collage using video edit tools and ArtiVive App.
In the end, every group had very different results, stories, and art forms shaped by Augmented Reality that shared their memories in nature during the months of Covid.
What happened in my group?
The five-women team I coordinated got to the conclusion that during the pandemic we all were paying more attention to our inner selves.
There emerged the connection with our mother language since the majority of the group was leaving in countries where they needed to speak a different language than our mother tongue. Therefore during the time in nature, they got back to their mother languages mentally.
The period of reflection also made us admire the sublime details of the landscape. The form of the leaves, the shape of the snow, and the perfection of the spider web were some of the examples mentioned during the discussion.
As a result, we created a video with our saved phone pictures and we narrated with a poem reading in our mother languages.
Watch the video and enjoy!
Authors:
Alexandra Tamayo (EC), Changzhen Zheng(CN), Elisabetta Modera (IT), Sabrina Loder (AT), Monika Maslon (PL), Maud Ceuterick (NO)
Additionally…
- Together, with Eliane Eid we presented the results of the workshop as part of the Showcase Section on the Cologne Film Festival 2021.
- If you want to know more about the project please read the following article: Moving with Nature, the co-creative AR Workshop
Team
From left to right:
– Rianne Cox
– Jimena Aguilar (Coordinator Digital Narratives)
– Alex Tamayo
– Eliane Eid
– Changzhen Zheng
– Cathal Kerins
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Video and all pictures by Changzhen Zheng
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