Orisa Pather

contact: orisapather23@gmail.com

Education

• Lancaster University - Sept 2023 - Present

MA Fine Art
Distinction (Predicted)

• Lancaster University - Sept 2020 – July 2023

BA Fine Art (Hons) 1st Class Degree

Experience

• Residency, FACT, Liverpool - Jan 2024 – Mar 2024

Computer Skills, Teamwork and Creativity. Making playable games in Unity inspired by interviewing artists. The final game that responded to an Arduino.

• Residency, Good Things Collective/Jewelers, Morecombe - Sept 2023 – Dec 2023

Teamwork, Creativity and Relationship Building. Attending workshops and talks with members of the Good Things Collective and Jewelers

• Technical Organiser, Disruption, Lancaster University - Mar 2023 – Jul 2023

Team Management, Leadership and Organisation Skills. Collecting information about digital media for exhibition. Aiding students in the technical installation of work.

• Student/EDI Representative, Fine Art, Lancaster University - Oct 2020 – Present

Communication, Leadership and Organisation Skills. Representing our year group and attending meetings to navigate issues within our course especially issues around representation and equality.

• Student Ambassador, Fine Art, Lancaster University - Oct 2021 – Jul 2023

Teamwork and Communication. Working with other ambassadors to help potential students.

• Society Member, Up North Arts, Lancaster University - Oct 2020 – Jul 2021

Creativity. Attending art-based social events.

Projects

• Vat_of_Acid

Narrative-based video game created in Unity that outputs to an Arduino.

• Object-1

Dangling Arduino robot that corresponds to proximity.

• M-25

Video art installation consisting of multiple projections, screens and corrupted audio. Videos created by hardware glitches in technology.

• Prometheus_Machine

Video art installation consisting of multiple monitors, audio and an Arduino pig liver. Videos created by human removal glitches in AI.

Exhibitions and Festivals

• /”FU: BAR/ (Glitch Art Exhibition, 2022), Zagreb, HR (& Online) 2022
• Manchester Lift-Off Film Festival, Manchester (& Online) 2023
• Uninterrupted (Group Exhibition), Gregson Community Centre, Lancaster, UK 2023
• First Frame: Student Film Festival, Online 2023
• First-Time Filmmaker Session – By Lift-Off Global Network, Online 2023
• Disruption (Degree Show), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK 2023

Technical Skills

• Web Development: HTML, Java, CSS
• Programming: Visual Basic, C#
• Games Design: Unity 3D, Twine
• Adobe: Premier Pro, Photoshop, After Effects.
• Projection-Mapping: VDMX
• 3D Modeling: Blender
• Animation: Blender

References are available upon request.