Czarina Calinawagan

archieven - artistiek onderzoek - beeldhouwen - dekolonisatie - design - Diaspora - digitale technologie - experimenteel - interactief - internet

Czarina Calinawagan has an artist-research practice in media arts through materials and approaches exploring auto-ethnography, archiving, spatial narratives, geolocative media and AR. Her research interests and writings also scope game cultures and Indigenous storytelling, and digital cultural heritage.

Her background in the visual arts with printmaking, illustration, and sculpture are also applied through experimentation with AR installations, 3D modelling, and other audio-visual text materials.

She earned her MA in Media Arts Cultures through the Erasmus Mundus high mobility scholarship program that took place Danube University- Austria, Aalborg University-Denmark, and Lodz University- Poland. Prior this, a degree in Bachelor of Fine Arts- Visual Arts at the University of the Philippines-Baguio.

She was born in the Philippines, and is currently living in Rotterdam working on her art-research projects, and collaborating with artists and collectives.

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    • Sentimental Archive - A video essay proposal about the project
    Sentimental Archives - “Sentimental Archives” is an artistic research that investigates Rotterdam as a port city and maritime infrastructures through personal memories and belongings of postal letters and photograph of my father who worked as a seafarer from the 70s and 80s. The creative process explores with auto-ethnography, geolocative Augmented Reality, mapping concepts and audio-visual materials to contemplate on the materiality and sensibility of archives as spatial narratives and intimate data.