overGround:underStory
Andrew Burrell
Dr Andrew Burrell is a practice-based researcher and educator exploring virtual and digitally mediated environments as a site for the construction, experience and exploration of memory as narrative. His process is one of worlding in virtual space—visualising otherwise unseen connections and entanglements. His ongoing research investigates the relationship between imagined and remembered narrative and how the multi-layered biological and technological encoding of human subjectivity may be portrayed within, and inform the design of, virtual environments.
Burrell’s practice ranges from traditional academic research exploring the creative potential for virtual environments to visualise complex informational relationships to webXR based immersive experiences and large scale collaborative projects in virtual environments. He is currently interested the ongoing development of smaller scale experiments to more deeply explore questions of the material, philosophical and phenomenological aspects of virtual environments to form a deeper understanding of their intrinsic affordances. This practice is always framed by an underlying concern for developing ethical and sustainable methods for engaging with current and emerging technologies during a global climate crisis.
A Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney. Lives and works on Gadigal Country.
OverGround:underStory is a more-than-human collaboration borne out of an entangled network of relationships between Andrew Burrell and the physical/digital ecologies they exist within. Signs of non-human mark making are sought within physical ecologies (animal+, vegetable+, mineral+) and are reinterpreted in and by digital ecologies (image generation, image recognition, text generation, www networks, code). OverGround:underStory is a work that requests time for exploration. In order that you too may become enmeshed in its network, it requires a slow and reflective approach.
overGround:underStory
About the work
OverGround:underStory is a more-than-human collaboration borne out of an entangled network of relationships between Andrew Burrell and the physical/digital ecologies they exist within. Signs of non-human mark making are sought within physical ecologies (animal+, vegetable+, mineral+) and are reinterpreted in and by digital ecologies (image generation, image recognition, text generation, www networks, code). OverGround:underStory is a work that requests time for exploration. In order that you too may become enmeshed in its network, it requires a slow and reflective approach.
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Andrew Burrell
Dr Andrew Burrell is a practice-based researcher and educator exploring virtual and digitally mediated environments as a site for the construction, experience and exploration of memory as narrative. His process is one of worlding in virtual space—visualising otherwise unseen connections and entanglements. His ongoing research investigates the relationship between imagined and remembered narrative and how the multi-layered biological and technological encoding of human subjectivity may be portrayed within, and inform the design of, virtual environments.
Burrell’s practice ranges from traditional academic research exploring the creative potential for virtual environments to visualise complex informational relationships to webXR based immersive experiences and large scale collaborative projects in virtual environments. He is currently interested the ongoing development of smaller scale experiments to more deeply explore questions of the material, philosophical and phenomenological aspects of virtual environments to form a deeper understanding of their intrinsic affordances. This practice is always framed by an underlying concern for developing ethical and sustainable methods for engaging with current and emerging technologies during a global climate crisis.
A Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication, faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney. Lives and works on Gadigal Country.
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