| Student Showcase: PXL University College MAD School of Arts |
 
Within my practice, I explore ways of approaching works of art through the process of their translation within another medium. Every project of translation involves discovering the context of the original, but also establishing a tactile relationship with it, which provokes reflection and allows a gradual growth of associations and relationships. Through this process, I employ narrative parallels to translation and develop artistic techniques that correspond to its transformational potential. Translation is a composite activity that challenges assertiveness and creates a space for uncertainty and reflexivity, allowing us to engage with the familiar, as well as with the unknown.
Gert De Clercq
Gert De Clercq's artistic practice manifests itself from an attentive consideration of everyday but complex reality. He dissects both concrete and immaterial evidences by unbalancing them and illuminating them from an astute perspective. His inquisitive engagement with self-evidences is translated into a layering of meanings through humor and an urge to control. From a desire to look beyond the boundaries of everyday reality, he simultaneously reflects on the precise nature and intent of contemporary art and engages the viewer in this investigation. Thus, our perception is challenged to expand our awareness of the surrounding world. Through the possibilities of various techniques and media, Gert De Clercq ultimately strives for an uncomplicated visual discourse. 
Lieve Kauwenberghs
How do we live, think and create in unstable times and times of ecological disaster? In my work I seek ways to weave particles of a proliferating world together, using stories and ecological thinking to question structures, patterns, and systems, taking a multispecies and non-anthropocentric position to do this. Place, space and environment play a central role. This series of works arose from a search for places of refugia.
Robbe Cools
League of Legends is one of the most popular games out there. Unfortunately, the verbal aggression in the gaming circuit is also legendary. So it is time to take responsibility as a leading brand and to actively intervene. Thanks to AI technology, this can be done with humor. Gamers who exceed the treshold during gameplay (via audio or chat) are detected by AI. The aggressive players will be punished with… detention in-game. They cannot start a new game before they have cleaned up the "mess" of the fight: picking up bullets, wiping blood, repair work, etc. With this, League of Legends wants to point out aggressive players to their behavior playfully and completely in game style. To start the conversation and improve the atmosphere during online gaming once and for all! 
Willemien Stephni Bruwer
The Anthropocene is a proposed geological time period on Earth showcasing the immense human impact on Earth’s ecosystems and geology, as well as the rapid increase of biological extinction rates. Our environment has been permanently changed worldwide because of human behaviour, which constantly reconfigures the biological trajectory of Earth. It is crucial to understand the extent of human destruction to Earth, and to create deep connections with Nature. Thus, my aim is to use the termite nest as a framework for my creative process where deeper human and ecological connections are created. Jewellery plays an important role as my chosen medium to magnify the unseen creatures in our environment. Through this microscopic view of invisible beings of earth, the Anthropocentric period and its’ devastation is highlighted. Jewellery then acts as the medium that communicates multiple stories, which creates alternative ways of understanding and experiencing Nature.
Kithana Lenaerts
Renew your wardrobe in a sustainable way
Niaz Mirmobini
The Perso-Arabic writing system is conjoined and feels organic. Letter forms are blended like ivy jasmine and feel free, allowing certain character sequences/strings to be replaced by more compact forms, here called ligatures. As a result of technological typographic evolution, often determined by Western standards, many of Perso-Arabic script grammar have been removed creating discrepancies between the manuscript form and its typographic development. While technology has taken a favourable turn, and it is possible to return to manuscript forms via Open Type features, this project explores how the reading experience in several editorial categories can be altered by the presence of ligatures (in a quantitative way) in running text. To investigate the potential effect of ligatures on reading measures such as engagement, accuracy, and fluency, I designed and tested plenty of two letter groups ligatures with adult native Persian readers in different contents and layouts. Consequently, ligatures effect on reading flow and participant are noticeably more critical of them in the context, leading this design study to categorise reading materials based on where ligatures could potentially be applied. |
