Remediated Sites: The Lumen Prize Virtual Gallery as Site of Memory and Digital Assemblage

OLIVER GINGRICH is a senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London; a researcher at the National Centre for Computer Animation at Bournemouth University; and a reader at the University of Greenwich’s School of Design. As a curator, his interests focus on underrepresented groups in the media arts. As an artistic practitioner, he focuses on presence experience, deep learning and art, neuroart, and visual sound. He is cofounder of Art in Flux and recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant for the research project p_ART_icipate on the effect of participatory art on social connectedness.

PAULA CALLUS is an associate professor at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Faculty of Media & Communication, Bournemouth University. She leads two AHRC-funded research projects, ArtoP: The Visual Articulations of Politics in Nigeria and ReSpace (Reanimating Contested Spaces): Designing Participatory Civic Education for and with Young People in Kosovo and Rwanda. Her research expertise is in Sub-Saharan African animation, the socially engaged arts, and the Global South. She has worked as a consultant and educator on the UNESCO Africa Animated projects in Kenya and South Africa, leading teams of artists to collaborate to make animated shorts.