AfterGlow: An award winning 3D real-time animation artwork, expressing a zoonotic malaria transmission scenario
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 197579
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
- Silent Signal
- Month
- January
- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- AfterGlow is a spatially sensitive 3D-simulation of a malaria infection transmission scenario considered from the mosquitoes’ perspective. Novelty is achieved with a shift from statistical abstract representations, to one that is visual and from a landscape perspective. The combination of a model of infection dynamics, built with current scientific data of landscape use, leads to a visually engaging expression that exhibits an extraordinary spatial sensitivity. This approach allows for the communication of complex system dynamics to non-expert audience. The work was the first model of human disease transmission to win first prize in the 2016 Lumen Prize in raising public awareness of complex interactions with ecosystems and a need to understand relations between economic forces and risks to human health.
The three-year project centred on a collaboration between the artists and a mathematical modeller based at University of Glasgow. The research was conducted in parallel with The Malaria Centre’s programme “MONKEYBAR” defining the biomedical, environmental and social risk factors for human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi. The project was structured around collaborative creative workshops conducted within the context of a wider experimental project Silent Signal, to create experimental animated artworks exploring new ways of thinking about the human body. This led to the creation of an agent-based simulation incorporating features of disease transmission dynamics including animal behaviour and data representations of land use and forest cover.
The artefact produced was included in the Silent Signal national touring exhibition, incorporating arts and science venues lead by Animate Projects and funded by the Wellcome Trust. The artefact has also been exhibited internationally, attracting attention for its aesthetic communications of natural mechanics, significant to both ecology and human health. It has also been used as a central case study by the British Council in developing their world leading Artience programme in South Korea.
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