Aysar Sara Abdelgelil:

 

 

Throughout my time at Wellesley College and MIT, I have had the opportunity to explore novel avenues in music technology and the material arts-- anchoring in an experimentation with sound and sensory embodiment. With tangible, albeit unconventional user interfaces, I build instruments that ask visitors to make decisions with dynamic and unpredictable responses. My research in Arab contemporary and experimental cinema, in my broader study of History, has challenged me to examine the qualities of what allows the human body to experience an immersive memory, and alternatively what stands in the way.

 

Extending this practice other other experimental digital forms, I have found film as an intermediate between the anthropomorphic digital sound instrument, the two-dimensional limitations of the reel, and the ironically confined nature of virtual reality. When these tools are merged, sonically-spatialized realities can be achieved.

 

 

mixed media

Jewett Sculpture Court

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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