multimedia
anthropology
lab.
Mission
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 different disciplines, and disrupt existing models of thought.
Impact
Projects
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
How can we rethink futures in ways that are multimedia, multimodal, and multivocal? This project explores the role of diverse methods, mediums and voices in the construction of knowledge: ecological and technological.
How can we rethink futures in ways that are multimedia, multimodal, and multivocal? This project explores the role of diverse methods, mediums and voices in the construction of knowledge: ecological and technological.
How can we cultivate collaborative planetary futures? Over the last four years, UCL MAL has been working in partnership with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. This October, Guarani and Kaiowá elders are coming to London to co-host a dynamic events series of multimedia performances, immersive installations, workshops and panel discussions.
This project is a knowledge exchange between UCL MAL and Kuñangue Aty Guasu—the Guarani & Kaiowá Indigenous Women’s Council Meeting—held online this year. Alongside preparations for MAL’s Multimedia Encounters conference, moving the event online prompts reflection on parallels between indigenous and anthropological knowledge practices.
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
How can sound shape Planetary Futures? In October 2024, Guarani and Kaiowa elders travelled to London to participate in a series of events, including this multimedia showcase at the Bloomsbury Theatre.
This exhibition explores the interplay between anthropological thought and computer intelligence. Both algorithms and the anthropological mind recursively dismantle and reconfigure knowledge, generating new forms of ethnographic data. By probing this formal equivalence, the exhibition examines systems of value and opens space to reimagine what it means to be (more than) human in the 21st-century mediascape.
In this project, UCL MAL will produce collaboratively with the Guarani & Kaiowá indigenous women, a Virtual Museum supported on the Mozilla Hubs platform. This Virtual Museum project seeks to address concerns raised by indigenous communities regarding community access to heritage management by creating a digital infrastructure through which local communities can preserve, curate, and display their material and immaterial cultural heritage.
How can we rethink futures in ways that are multimedia, multimodal, and multivocal? This project explores the role of diverse methods, mediums and voices in the construction of knowledge: ecological and technological.
This project proposes to develop an immersive spatial audio composition in collaboration with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities in Brazil. Community elders and youth, this year two members of the community are joining the UCL MAL team in Europe to participate in an artists residency at MONOM Studios in Berlin.
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