“Farfalle Digitale” by HFU student Sebastiana Augenstein can be visited daily from 21 - 27 July from 10.00am - 6.00pm in the Butterfly House on Mainau Island.
Furtwangen University student shows interactive media installation in the Butterfly House on Mainau Island
The Butterfly House on Mainau Island will be enriched by an extraordinarily creative digital exhibition from 21 - 27 June − every day from 10.00am - 6.00pm, an interactive media installation by Sebastiana Augenstein, a student of the Online Media programme at Furtwangen University, invites visitors to experience the Butterfly House in a completely new way.
As part of her bachelor's thesis at the HFU School of Design and Media, Sebastiana Augenstein explored digital aesthetics and examined multi-sensory perception in an interactive media installation in the space. She was supervised by Prof. Thomas Krach and Prof. Regina Reusch, who supported her work with their extensive technical and creative expertise.
What's special about the work − the perception of butterflies, which see in UV light and communicate with their wings, inspired Augenstein to develop digital visualisations from her own macro photographs. With her installation “Farfalle Digitale”, she takes up these aspects and uses several displays in the Butterfly House to make tangible what otherwise remains hidden from the human eye.
"Studying at Furtwangen University, especially at the HFU School of Design and Media, gave me the opportunity to show with my bachelor's thesis how design can be used to make hidden aspects of nature visible. I am delighted to be taking the first step towards public artistic presentation with ‘Farfalle Digitale’ − and in a place whose special atmosphere could hardly be more fitting than that of the Butterfly House on Mainau Island," says Sebastiana Augenstein. "This work exemplifies the creative and exploratory attitude that we promote in our Online Media programme − curiosity, the will to create and the ability to use digital means to enable new forms of perception. We are delighted that this very multifaceted thesis is now being made accessible to a wider public," says Dean of Studies Prof. Dr. Gotthard Pietsch.
“Farfalle Digitale” is a successful example of how design can be used − and at the same time a contribution to digital nature education in the sense of modern environmental education.
Prospective students can easily apply online for a place to study at Furtwangen University in the winter semester − including in the exciting field of media: Internal link opens in the same window:www.hs-furtwangen.de
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