This panel brings together artists, designers and researchers to discuss the roles of performance and imaging technologies, such as augmented reality, digital photography, video, and live stage effects, in connection with a variety of magical practices.
Mariza Dima is a Lecturer in Games Design who specialises in User Experience and User Interface design, and Maria Saridaki is a games studies researcher with a PhD in inclusive playful interactions. Their collaborative research examines parallels between the practice of ceremonial magic and the dramaturgical design of Augmented Reality immersive experiences, which both seem to alter normality, consciousness, and sense of self.
Sarah Best is a PhD student in Religious Studies and a practicing witch whose research interests include Neopaganism and contemporary witchcraft, and the ways that practitioners engage with material environments. She will present research on digital photography practices in contemporary witchcraft and the way these materialize magic, highlighting entanglements between the physical and the spiritual, and expanding notions of the “real”.
Jessica Mensch is an artist whose work contemplates the technological apparatus of video, special effects, painting, stage set, and architecture, and the position of women within these spheres of production. She will present research around her recent body of painting and video installation work, which draws on modern psychoanalytic theories of the uncanny to find connections among the repression of magical conceptions of the body during the early Middle Ages, witch hunts, and the roles performed by women in magic shows at the turn of the 20th century.
Please Note: this event will be recorded.
This panel brings together artists, designers and researchers to discuss the roles of performance and imaging technologies, such as augmented reality, digital photography, video, and live stage effects, in connection with a variety of magical practices.
Mariza Dima is a Lecturer in Games Design who specialises in User Experience and User Interface design, and Maria Saridaki is a games studies researcher with a PhD in inclusive playful interactions. Their collaborative research examines parallels between the practice of ceremonial magic and the dramaturgical design of Augmented Reality immersive experiences, which both seem to alter normality, consciousness, and sense of self.
Sarah Best is a PhD student in Religious Studies and a practicing witch whose research interests include Neopaganism and contemporary witchcraft, and the ways that practitioners engage with material environments. She will present research on digital photography practices in contemporary witchcraft and the way these materialize magic, highlighting entanglements between the physical and the spiritual, and expanding notions of the “real”.
Jessica Mensch is an artist whose work contemplates the technological apparatus of video, special effects, painting, stage set, and architecture, and the position of women within these spheres of production. She will present research around her recent body of painting and video installation work, which draws on modern psychoanalytic theories of the uncanny to find connections among the repression of magical conceptions of the body during the early Middle Ages, witch hunts, and the roles performed by women in magic shows at the turn of the 20th century.
Please Note: this event will be recorded.