Faced with the current pandemic’s restrictions and the looming shifts in digital culture, the Sculpture: Movement and Change course is considering the implications of creating physical objects in a time of virtual experience. Varying tactics from documentation to manipulation are used to make this translation from the gallery space to the uniquely immaterial space of the web.  Lamping’s formal investigations of light and color are enhanced by post-internet aesthetics while Fitzgerald seeks a direct, digital translation of a physical exhibition.  Phillips reflects on the immediacy and intimacy of our recorded moments, while Blades layers the artificial and natural world in cheeky, yet uncanny stop motion film. These emerging artists acknowledge that nothing is permanent in a time where memorializing our work and identities is more important than ever.

Professor Ian Hersko