Welcome to the WAVES 2018 Archive. WAVES is a digital art exhibition which acts as a bridge between international students. A collaboration between emerging artists from the School of Engineering at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, and the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Between 1st-23th August 2018, WAVES delivered two media architecture installations, one in Singapore at the Media Art Nexus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), under the auspices of NTU Art and Heritage Museum, and one in the UK, at the Gulbenkian Media Façade (GMF) which is part of the Gulbenkian – the University of Kent’s Arts Centre. The selected artworks made use of digital technologies in the public sphere to connect people, culture and community across geographies, bridging the distance between the two continents.

This cross-continental urban media project aims to build a sense of community beyond physical space, using art to develop global awareness and support cross-cultural audiovisual exchanges. The selected artworks are juxtaposed through two themes, one that creates worlds of wonder and another that explores real-life environmental issues, such as the effects of plastic pollution in water.