CANDIDA BORGES NOMINATED FOR THE LUMEN PRIZE WITH TRANSEUNTIS MUNDI

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 12:25pm to Monday, October 31, 2022 - 11:45pm

Former Visiting Scholar and Brazilian artist/professor Cândida Borges is in the short List of the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, one the most important awards of the field, with her virtual reality piece “Transeuntis Mundi Derive 01”.

This transmedia work contemplates the subjects of migration, ancestry and legacy through virtual reality, and it was developed as her PhD thesis and composition.

The Transeuntis Mundi Derive 01 was hosted at the CMC during 2019-2021, when she performed a Visiting Scholar residency at Columbia University.

Wed Oct 19th 6:30pm 2022 Barbican London – Award Ceremony Lumen Prize

Until Oct 31st 2022 - The Transeuntis Mundi Project and Exhibition – www.transeuntismundi.com

The Lumen Prize: https://www.lumenprize.com/2022-global-south-award-longlist/transeuntis-mundi-derive-01

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Transeuntis Mundi (TM) is a journey about how mobility through space and time has created geographies and the actual transcultural humanity. It investigates how it can be approached through artistic research and creative practices in transmedia arts using emerging technologies for XR to generate an archive of human legacy. TM installations are based on the 'transmedial' concept, exploring sound art, acoustic ecology, and poetic narrative to promote an unprecedented, interactive and immersive experience for its audience. It evokes the power of ancestry, identity and legacy by presenting a work on VR and WebVR, fully immersive and interactive.

As a piece of contemporary art and a non-fictional documentary VR in the lineage of the Realist movement, its compositions are based on field recordings with 3D technology and processing. Its final experience is designed to happen in a virtual reality environment in order to promote immersion and interactivity. The power of a non-linear narrative, 360o image and the spatialized ambisonic/binaural sound – which respond to the visitor’s decision - is crucial for this artistic experience.

The traveler can choose their own journey and enjoy the navigation of up to 30 minutes through 14 stories in 4 countries from 4 continents in Derive 01, from the exclusive TM archive and content. Derive 01 has been curated to poetically present our current time in a historical context. As an expected result, the participants perceive themselves as an integral part of the phenomenon of millennial migrations - the theme of TM works.

Cândida Borges - Brazilian transmedia artist and musician, Associate Professor at the UNIRIO University (BR), Fellow Researcher at the Antioquia University (CO), and Ph.D. Candidate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Computer Music Research/ Plymouth University (UK). 

Gabriel Mario Vélez - Colombian transmedia artist and Scholar, Dean, and Professor at the School of Arts at Antioquia University (CO);  Fellow at the MIT OpenDocLab (US); Post-Doc in Arts at the National University of Córdoba (ARG) and Doctor in Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (ESP).

Research collaborators – Esteban Henao (Sonora Ingeniaria - Colombia), Lívia Borges (Casa de Arte e Cultura - Brazil) and David Romero (UdeA - Colombia). 

The universities and institutions that have been funding this research: the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Plymouth University and Universidad de Antioquia. In-kind support of Zoom USA.  Project supported by Columbia University and OpenDocLab at MIT.