“Seed of Thought” was a 36-hour weekend workshop where artists, programmers, technologists, designers and professionals from a multitude of disciplines came together to share their thoughts and ideas that were developed from scratch. All the artworks that were created during the workshop were featured in the International Multidisciplinary Media Art Festival 2016 (IMMA FEST ‘16) on 11-12 June 2016 with the theme, “eARTh – see the unseen”. Active participants were Mr Jeremy Pinto, En Shazmir Shaharuddin and Mr Foo Yi Chyuan – TAR UC Creative Arts academics who had guided and supervised a total of 11 TAR UC Creative Arts students as named below:
Graphic Design students:
Multimedia Design students:
The workshop featured pitching of ideas session as students and lecturers from various universities worked together collaboratively, applying mixed culture and various medium to construct interactive New Media artworks.
"The IMMA Fest is a great collaborative platform which allows students to lean on multidisciplinary approaches for their designs," said Mr Foo, Lecturer of Graphic Design.
"IMMA Fest has helped our students in projecting their ideas with a new approach. Aside from just the usual print and screen presentation, students presented their new ideas using a Mix Media format, which I thought is a good way," said En Shaharuddin, Lecturer of Multimedia Design.
"This workshop is an eye opener for our students in exploring fusion between art and technology which allows them to create their designs using various platforms and medium. It was a great opportunity to collaborate with other universities and colleges, exploring the outcome together," said Mr Jeremy Pinto.
