Dezeen Faculty Reveals: paintings knowledgeable by the work of artist Marcel Duchamp is among the many tasks being exhibited at Virginia Commonwealth College Faculty of the Arts in Qatar’s New Exhibition Ghūl.
Additionally set to be exhibited is a sequence of biodegradable lamps and a satirical set up outlining the way forward for AI and its software to water entry.
Establishment: Virginia Commonwealth College Faculty of the Arts in QatarSchool: Faculty of the ArtsCourse: New Exhibition Ghūl, Ars Electronica Competition 2025Tutors: Meriem Aiouna, Dina Alkhateeb, Chase Westfal and Joshua Rodenbergl
Faculty assertion:
“VCUarts Qatar current Ghūl, an immersive exhibition that displays on the programs that govern our lives, by expertise, economics and ecology, and the way they form the way in which we expertise the world.
“The exhibition takes its cue from the favored ‘ghoul’ or ghūl (غُولْ), the shapeshifting trickster or a mischievous malevolent creature of Arabian folklore.
“The exhibition makes use of the determine as a metaphor to research how human-made programs ensnare, affect and linger in our each day existence.
“Ghūl invitations guests to query how these constructions embody collective values and rework lived realities. These tasks replicate the urgency of rethinking the programs that situation on a regular basis life.
“By poetic, important and playful engagements, they invite viewers to navigate the seen and invisible forces shaping the current – and to think about alternate options past them.
“Ghūl brings collectively a various set of works developed by college, college students, alumni and collaborators throughout the VCUarts Qatar and Richmond campuses.”
HydroGAN by Fariha Ahmed, Fatima Nazir, Alice Aslem, Selma Fejzullaj, Jood Elbeshti and Shawky Abdalla
“HydroGAN is a satirical set up critiquing the commodification of water and identification in an AI-driven age.
“Framed as the company launch of ‘AI-generated’ water, it exposes the environmental and moral prices masked by the rhetoric of technological progress.
“By efficiency, biometric entry, and persuasive branding, the work levels a spectacle of want, revealing how perception is manufactured and consumption engineered.
“HydroGAN asks audiences to confront the programs they belief and the silent trade-offs they’ve realized to just accept.”
College students: Fariha Ahmed, Fatima Nazir, Alice Aslem, Selma Fejzullaj, Jood Elbeshti and Shawky AbdallaCourse: Grasp of Tremendous Arts in DesignTutor: Joshua Rodenberg (venture advisor)
Group venture: Apparitions
“Apparitions invitations members right into a digital cave the place a sculptural keyboard turns into the medium for summoning swirling digital ‘apparitions’.
“By playful suggestions loops between physique, gesture and code, the work explores how embodied interplay shapes notion and expertise inside chaotic digital areas.
“Every of the works showcased will align with the exhibition’s central theme: making seen the hidden forces that form modern life and alluring various futures by engagement, critique and play.
“This transcontinental collaboration exemplifies VCUarts Qatar’s dedication to artistic analysis that spans disciplines, cultures and applied sciences.”
College students: Ryan Browning, Sarah Khankan, Ameena Darwish, Martin Juras, Moom Thahinah, Lana Selo, Maha Alnaimi, Aljohara Almeraikhi, Fatima Al Muftah, Abdelrahman Moustafa, Nada Hijawi and Essa Al Mahmoud
Self-Reflexive Worlds: Preferrred House by ShanMu Solar
“In adaptive digital environments, the consumer turns into each topic and object, trigger and impact, determine and floor.
“Responsive applied sciences replicate again our pictures and needs, drawing us right into a corridor of shifting mirrors that’s not all the time simple to flee.
“Preferrred House is an XR narrative that reimagines immigrant experiences and the that means of residence by rising applied sciences.
“An archive of texts written by immigrants and rooted in reminiscence and displacement was reworked right into a unified script by a fine-tuned GPT-4 mannequin.
“Introduced right into a recreation engine, this script unsettles the boundary between oral historical past and generative storytelling.
“Guided by a spectral AI avatar, gamers transfer by layered landscapes, fleeting reminiscences, and cultural symbols, co-authoring with the system a brand new language of belonging.”
Pupil: ShanMu Solar
Self-Reflexive Worlds: Textual content Textures by Sirena Pearl
“Textual content Textures transforms reside webcam feeds into shifting ASCII streams, inscribing the participant’s actions straight into the sport world.
“This uncanny mirroring produces a state of simultaneous statement and self-surveillance, exposing the stress between management and submission.
“Progress within the recreation requires gamers to actively code parts, a course of that confronts them with their very own digital identification, as fragments, abstractions and algorithmically parsed information.
“The work asks: can we writer our digital presence, or are we authored as consumable information factors inside programs of computation?”
Pupil: Sirena PearlTutor: Peter Baldes (venture advisor)
Group venture: Roto Riso
“Roto Riso is a modular kinetic set up impressed by Duchamp’s Rotoreliefs and Op Artwork, reimagined by modern media practices.
“The venture invitations college students to discover movement, phantasm and cultural patterns by riso-printed spinning discs.
“With adjustable velocity, route and swappable components, Roto-Riso is an interactive and participatory expertise that merges artwork historical past, design, kinetic imaging, and printmaking in an interdisciplinary intro to time-based media.”
College students: Varvara Guljajeva, Liyan Abu Taleb, Alghalya Al-Emadi, Haya Al-Emadi, Amna Aljaber, Alya Al-Jamal, Alreem Al-Moslamani, Nouf Al-Kuwari, Noor Al-Shareef, Maryam AlKuwari, Alya Altamimi, Talia El Zein, Alfajer Ghanem, Ifrah Khan, Sumaiya Rawothapillai, Adnan Abdul Ghaffar, Douha Al Hiraky, Shaikha Al-Maadhadi, Dima Al-Marri, Mooza Al-Mohannadi, Maryam Al-Mulla, Fatima Al-Sumaiti, Eman Ba Hakam, Kristen DSilva, Abeeha Fawad Khan, Malika Hashem, Haya Kandakji, Lamis Khalid, Kaela Pablo, Syed Abdul Rasheed and Noof Al-AhbabiTutors: Rhassan Rachdi (instructing assistant), Eman Makk (riso print), Shankar Padmanabhan (woodwork)
Meals Waste Renaissance by Yasamin Shaikhi
“Meals Waste Renaissance (FWR) explores how meals extra and byproducts could be remodeled into sustainable design supplies.
“Moderately than claiming to resolve large-scale waste points, it reframes notion, inviting people, designers and communities to see waste having an enormous potential.
“Working with rice and date byproducts, FWR creates biodegradable lamps that return materials from the desk to the desk.
“In a world the place programs typically masks hurt as progress, FWR proposes an alternate path, reinvention by design.”
Pupil: Yasamin ShaikhiCourse: Grasp of Tremendous Arts in Design
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