multimedia

anthropology

lab.

ONLINE CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

MULTIMEDIA ENCOUNTERS

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

UCL MAL is a student-led research network aimed at developing innovative methods for anthropological practice. We experiment with diverse tools and mediums for gathering data and presenting research, including sound, film, VR/360 video, AI, performance, exhibitions and installations, and explore how they can contribute towards alternative forms of anthropological thinking. If anthropology is to remain relevant today we must develop new forms of practice which can dialogue with more diverse audiences, collaborate with colleagues across disciplines, and disrupt existing models of thought.

DEADLINE 2ND DECEMBER 2020

LOCATION

TATE MODERN, UK

MEDIUM

EXHIBITION WITH 360 VIDEO, VR, AR, SOUND

SUPPORTED BY

PROJECT SUMMARY

UCL

This exhibition examined technologies of capture and perspective exchange, exploring their role in both art and anthropology. Taking place in the context of Higher Resolution, as part of TATE Exchange, we led a workshop which explored how ways of seeing and believing encode themselves into technological objects.

LOCATION

UCL FESTIVAL

OF CULTURE

MEDIUM

EXHIBITION FEATURING: AMBISONIC SPATIAL AUDIO INSTALLATION, PROJECTION MAPPING, 360 VIDEO, VR, OLFACTORY NARRATION & INTERACTIVE SCULPTURE

SUPPORTED BY

PROJECT SUMMARY

UCL FESTIVAL

OF CULTURE

This immersive exhibition presents contemporary research on ecological crisis and human futures, in an experimental collaboration by UCL’s Multimedia Anthropology Lab.  Bringing together interdisciplinary works conducted by anthropologists, artists, and sound designers, this event draws on immersive spatial audio, projection mapping, and VR to take us through the shifting ecologies of our times, while inviting us to speculate on alternative futures. 

LOCATION

MS, BRAZIL

MEDIUM

360 VIDEO, AMBISONIC SOUND, SOUND, VIDEO, PHOTOGRAMMETRY, PHOTOGRAPHY, 

SUPPORTED BY

PROJECT SUMMARY

FIMI

This project is a collaborative knowledge-exchange between UCL MAL and the Kuñangue Aty Guasu: the Guarani & Kaiowá indigenous women’s council meeting, which this year will take place onlineIn tandem, we are finalising preparations for MAL’s Multimedia Encounters conference, and the translation of this event into an online format invites us to reflect on the parallels between the knowledge practices of indigenous communities and those of anthropologists.

LOCATION

LONDON, UK &

SOUTH BRAZIL

MEDIUM

AUDIO-VISUAL PIECE SHOT WITH SUPER 8, HAND-PAINTED AND SCRATCHED

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PROJECT SUMMARY

INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION.

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RESEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE WELLCOME COLLECTION

Plantaphilia is a collaborative project that consists of a series of analog films exploring the life of plants through responsive visual and sound, encompassing the perspective of plant ontology. The plants are specifically connected to the history of botany and medicine, acknowledging the colonial encounter between the Old and the New World and consequently how plants are seeing and spread.