remote city [skygardens_towers] – Athens Digital Arts Festival

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The camera pans through elevated levels of a fragmented and futuristic city featuring sky gardens and empty high-rise towers that humans appear to have left behind. Hybrid architectural models are textured with borrowed/downloaded visuals and smart-phone-camera stills, embedded into their multi-faceted surfaces, whilst online maps of real-world city locations are used as templates to create 3d structures. The film was originally inspired by a journalism article ‘Ghost Towers’ about many unoccupied high-rise towers in the city.

Sandra Crisp (UK)

Sandra Crisp (b. Cheshire, UK) studied MA Fine Art Printmaking at the Wimbledon School of Art (1993). She has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and taught in various London-based colleges. Recent exhibitions/awards include: Forthcoming – June 2018: Altered States, Waterloo Festival, London, UK. 2017: Schauerman Digital Prize (Awarded by Gentic Moo/The London Group) 2017: ‘The London Group Open’ Cello Factory, London, UK. 2017: FILE Video and GIF, Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil. 2016: ‘Visions’ Bow Arts, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK. 2016: Arctic Moving Image and Film Festival, Harstad, Norway. 2016: EMAF European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany.