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BA (Hons) Animation
Student Showcase
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Student Showcase
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Alternative Realities Illustrated revolves around the excitement of exploration through avatars, transforming art into a dynamic stage for tales of freedom, passion, rebellion, and self-discovery. Hosted on Netart.city, this virtual exhibition features four distinct digital spaces where students craft unique environments to showcase their artworks.
Freedom Fighter Zenos is about the representation of freedom by showing how my character fights back against the corruption in this simulated world that traps him, as he tries to escape it. He tries to break free from this virtual world that he believes this greedy corporation is behind, which has trapped him inside for its gain.
Cody Kallper’s life revolves around a search for unified identity, day in day out he pledges himself to aesthetics and occupations regardless of his skills and abilities (or lack thereof). His approach to life is represented by a misguided ideology, ‘how hard can it be?’ When discovering how hard it can actually be, he begins to adopt his own humorous ideas to how this particular role should operate.
The Rapidly Changing Digital Identity gives the viewers an exploration into two different avatars that I adopted over the years. One is a Chibi character named Limbobobo, a small, goofy avatar that is a culmination of my hobbies when I was younger. The other is a serious martial artist named Sunorae Kudotsuke, who was my first DND character and my first exploration into serious character writing.
I.V.E.S. is a story about a woman and her passion for creation. How we see women in an industry and how we are looking at women ‘out of their golden age’. It’s about the usage of AI in the industry and how people can use it as a helpful instrument or as a cheap replacement of hard working people. Eva created I.V.E.S. out of passion, and that passion was shut under the industry demands.
Alternative Realities Illustrated spins around the thrill of exploration through avatars, where art becomes a vibrant stage for stories of freedom, fire, rebellion, and self-discovery. The artists in this exhibition don’t just draw characters—they conjure digital alter egos, sending them leaping into pixel-packed universes to live narratives too fierce, too strange, or too enchanted for everyday life. These avatars aren’t just visual displays; they’re vessels of identity, desire, and resistance—shapeshifting through imagined worlds to tell stories that are often too complex, too loud, or too tender to be contained in reality alone.
This exhibition is about breaking boundaries and bending rules. It dives deep beneath playful surfaces to reveal personal journeys, moments of defiance, and the rewriting of inner mythologies. It’s about tiny rebels standing tall against towering systems, avatars who shout back at silence, and pop culture clichés being turned inside out.
By stepping into digital skins, the artists open portals—unexpected spaces where raw emotion meets rendered image. Avatars become mirrors for hidden truths, megaphones for voices long muted, and sparks for change that leap off the screen and into real life. What starts in pixels ripples outward, inviting us to look closer, feel deeper, and maybe even see ourselves reflected in the glitch and glow of another world.
Welcome to Alternative Realities Illustrated—where the virtual gets personal, and digital avatars become vivid extensions of ourselves, blurring the lines between imagination and identity.
Exhibition Opens In:
Curator:
Tatiana Isaeva
Curatorial Statement:
As part of our Animating Digital Identities symposium, we are organising Alternative Realities Illustrated - a Student Showcase, a collection of student works across various programs ( Animation, Graphic Design and Media and Communication). We propose curating a hybrid exhibition, combining physical representations of student projects with a virtual gallery available on the day of the symposium. This hybrid curatorial approach allows us to explore the digital space beyond its conventional parameters, expanding the perception of digital art by integrating it into a physical environment.
Cici Moss refers to the hybridisation of digital art as ‘expanded Internet art’, a concept that emerged after the term Post-Internet. She uses it to describe net-based artworks that function within a distributed system, in a state of continuous becoming. Inspired by this fluidity, we aim to experiment with the interplay between digital and physical spaces, constructing a dual environment where the transition between the two is seamless and organic.
The artists in this exhibition are taking on the role of curators. The traditionally strict line between artist and curator is being blurred, as each artist curates their own digital space to create an environment that embodies the themes of their work. This approach continues the exhibition's overarching theme of hybridity—challenging conventional boundaries and redefining roles. By doing so, it encourages collaboration and opens new possibilities for creativity.
Curator:
Tatiana Isaeva
Curatorial Statement:
As part of our Animating Digital Identities symposium, we are organising Alternative Realities Illustrated - a Student Showcase, a collection of student works across various programs ( Animation, Graphic Design and Media and Communication). We propose curating a hybrid exhibition, combining physical representations of student projects with a virtual gallery available on the day of the symposium. This hybrid curatorial approach allows us to explore the digital space beyond its conventional parameters, expanding the perception of digital art by integrating it into a physical environment.
Cici Moss refers to the hybridisation of digital art as ‘expanded Internet art’, a concept that emerged after the term Post-Internet. She uses it to describe net-based artworks that function within a distributed system, in a state of continuous becoming. Inspired by this fluidity, we aim to experiment with the interplay between digital and physical spaces, constructing a dual environment where the transition between the two is seamless and organic.
The artists in this exhibition are taking on the role of curators. The traditionally strict line between artist and curator is being blurred, as each artist curates their own digital space to create an environment that embodies the themes of their work. This approach continues the exhibition's overarching theme of hybridity—challenging conventional boundaries and redefining roles. By doing so, it encourages collaboration and opens new possibilities for creativity.