UAL Art Collection curator Lucie Pardue interviews the artist Shane Sutherland. Shane talks about making their virtual reality artwork, Meditations of the In/Corporeal. We are delighted to publish the video on the UAL Digital Collections site to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day.
World Digital Preservation Day, held on the first Thursday of every November, brings together archivists, curators and communities to celebrate the work taking place across the world to preserve and make accessible our digital content.
A new commission for the UAL Art Collection
Shane Sutherland graduated from BA Photography at London College of Communication in 2021. The UAL Art Collection commissioned a new piece of work from the artist. The result, created in 2022, was an immersive virtual reality film titled Meditations of the In/Corporeal. The work employs new digital techniques which, as Shane says, ‘explore the battlefield of the body, through ideas of the binary and those who dare to resist and defy it’.
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