Profile
Virtual migrants connects and engages artists with digital media, and organises projects that add new aesthetics and perspectives to themes of race, migration and globalisation. We create, exhibit and distribute artworks that incorporate digital media techniques that can be installed in galleries, public spaces or community venues. We are a loose association of individuals, with a small core yet with a large number of collaborative links and connections across the UK.
Our work and aspirations
We are artistically driven by the highly charged and moving human stories, events and histories around migration, and by the urge to delve into the deeper causes and links which underlie these narratives, both local and global. Our work to date has been focused on breaking down the borders between documentary and art in unusual ways and includes involving real people and informal perspectives along with 'high-level' arts practice within presentations, or using poetry and song responding to film documentary, or combining the abstract with the literal.
Having just published EXHALE, a DVD with Audio-CD and two booklets which presents a vast array of video and original interactive art (including by Keith Piper) along with music and essays, we are currently both re-presenting work including at SIGGRAPH 2007 as well as redefining our future directions.
Contact details
Website: www.virtualmigrants.com
