Fieldwork Projects: Constructed Realities: A Slice of Time-Art Through Student Visions

Constructed Realities brings together a vast, non-linear archive from the Digital Time-Art (DTA) curriculum and the broader Transmedia field, representing a slice of more than three decades of Art Department history. Rather than a chronological retrospective, this exhibition draws on past years to show how artists use digital tools to slice up, loop, and rebuild the world around them. It offers a raw look at contemporary digital fieldwork, highlighting an ongoing collaborative legacy rather than trying to showcase every era.

The exhibition divides this moving-image work into two distinct spatial experiences, trading strict categories for an energetic mix and coexistence of different visions.

In The Reel, a single-channel, nearly two-hour marathon tracks a continuous stream of student work, functioning as a dynamic, uncategorized timeline of experimental media. Traditional narratives collide directly with frame stop-motion, state-of-the-art digital animation, and experimental documentaries. The lineup features hyper-focused "idea work" alongside radical "reverse short films"—pieces engineered and deconstructed from existing cinema masters to show how evolving digital timelines, emerging AI tools, and algorithmic workflows are changing the way we tell stories.

Moving into The Grid, the environment shifts into a multi-screen space that presents work specifically built for a synchronized, four-screen side-by-side array. By splitting a single project across four parallel viewports, the piece breaks the boundaries of the traditional frame. The architecture of the space forces you to see moving images as data, environment, and sculpture rather than just a flat screen. Ultimately, this fieldwork documents the exact moment when Transmedia and DTA artists stopped consuming digital media and began breaking it open to see how it works.