SIMONE LUCAS
ABOUT SIMONE:
Simone Lucas is a non-fiction filmmaker, digital media artist and educator, and a white settler of Jewish-Ashkenazi descent based in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (aka Montreal).
Simone’s practice approaches documentary as performance, asking whether there is a genuine way to capture past experiences, or if they are only accessible through metaphor and fantasy. Their debut film, I Think About You Every Day, is a non-fiction dance piece based on an email exchange with a friend. It has screened in local, national and international film festivals.
Simone’s educational background integrates cultural studies and media production. She has a research-creation MA in Media Studies from Concordia University supported by scholarships from the FQRSC and SSHRC.
Simone is a Part-Time Faculty at the Communications Studies Department at Concordia University. They recently completed a specialization in Virtual and Augmented Reality at Champlain College. Their current artistic research investigates histories of fish preservation and memory-making in the Jewish diaspora through virtual world-building.
AKA HERRING PARK
AKA Herring Park investigates the history of a fishmongers market and its revitalization into a public park in my grandparents’ home city of Łódź, Poland . It is a multimedia XR installation which layers oral history interviews, real-time interactive 3D graphics, and fish preservation to create an immersive diasporic park. The project uses multiple channels of video projection and investigates the story-telling capabilities of sensory mediums such as pickling brine.AKA Herring Park asks: how does herring brine, an agent of preservation, act as a willful archive, preserving not only fish, but stories about Jewish life? I aim to immerse participants in this park, provoking conversations on the role of digital media and the senses in preserving memory.
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