AR Artist Bootcamp Residency
For COMPUTALA 2025 we held our 3rd “Artist Bootcamp Residency” - an intensive, short-term workshop designed to help artists rapidly develop their skills, ideas, and professional practices - and focused on Augmented Reality.
Lead by artist Nicholas Delap, a Freelance Visual Artist, rewilding the mind through the exploration and re-discovery of British Folklore. Working with VR, AR, 3D modelling and 3D Animation with a background in Fine Art.
And our AR Bootcamp Residents were:
Hanna Paniutsich | XYANA
A multimedia artist, designer and researcher based in Glasgow.My work is a collage of personal stories and hi(r)stories, video footage, physical devices and biomatter. It is heavily informed by scientific research in the fields of ecology, architecture, chemistry, biology and emergent technologies, which are reassembled into installations, moving images and writing. Through this, I explore different types of Exclusion Zones that exist in both physical and digital realms. I navigate through different biomaterials, physical computing pieces, 3D models and scans, online comments, footage and photographs, satellite imagery, data, and coding languages.
Hogweed Invasion
This AR experience is based on a research project into Giant Hogweed plants and their intelligence. These plants are known to be dangerous for humans because of their photosensitive sap that causes burns when exposed to human skin. The plants are also notoriously invasive and known to take over other species of plants. They bloom once in their life, after having accumulated enough starch, and then release hundreds of seeds. These seeds might hibernate in the ground for up to 5 years before propagating and more mature plants usually look after them. This AR experience is a Giant Hogweed invasion of the exhibition space.
Lena Helikia Ngoudjo Siewe
A multidisciplinary artist woven by her obsession with undressing the raw beauty of the bare soul. Untangling the strangeness of humanity amongst nature and exploring black expression through my fondness of all things poetic, sonic and visually palpitating. In particular, I specialise in the creation of Performance & Multi-media art as well as Spoken word poetry. My practice indulges in devising and workshopping Intersectionality within art and documenting the rising and dying cultures & politics thriving within our BIPOC youth & diverse communities.
Fairy Wings
In my first journey of exploring AR technology and 3d modelling, I’ve learnt you can turn the trees and grass of parks into fairy lakes
‘In the new year, I would like to grow fairy wings’
Miriam Bean
Working with sound as both a medium and a subject, I primarily use pure tones to create indeterminate installations. My research into sound perception ranges from physiology to musicology, as I seek to understand how the brain interprets some sounds as jarring noise and others as expressive, concordant music. By comparing cultural receptions of dissonance with physiological evidence, I explore how the physicality of noise shapes psychological responses to dissonant art and music.
Listening to the Gallery
This work explores the translation of data between space, sound, and light. Created during the AR Bootcamp between 7-8th January, Miriam began by 3D scanning the interior of the LCB Lightbox Gallery using LiDAR. The scan was reconstructed in Blender using traced planes, forming the foundation for an oscilloscope animation. The audio in the video is a direct translation of the visual data into soundwaves, which are created and edited via oscilloscope software. Through this cyclical process, the work examines the relationship between auditory and visual data, and how forms and frequencies interact.
