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The Commoners' Society
Kamila Kantek
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Interdisciplinary designer balancing between design and art. She bases her creative work on empirical research of the environment and use of new technologies, combining the digital with the analog. She’s searching for narratives stemming from interaction of people, environments and technology questioning how aesthetic and emotional experiences affect ways of thinking. Looking for new narratives for future of the environment. Now/Here
For her video Now/Here, Kamila Kantek (Warsaw, Poland, 1992) created a virtual world representing memory in collage-like frames. By morphing digital representations of reality, Kantek examines new ways to connect them to our surroundings in order to define locality. By creating an independent “mind space”, memories and identities are reclaimed and reoccupied. They become a point of reference in our contemporary world which is being dominated by digitization, causing friction in our reality. Now/Here can be seen as an attempt to get a grip on contemporary life. SHARE
