Lara Ansell
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Lara Ansell

Visual and Media Researcher | Artist | AnthropologistLondon, United Kingdom
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Lara Ansell

Visual and Media Researcher | Artist | AnthropologistLondon, United Kingdom
About me
An Artist, Researcher, Visual Anthropologist and expert in Written and Audio-Visual Content Creation, currently based in Berlin and London. I am dedicated to innovative interdisciplinary research between artistic and scientific environments within curatorial exhibitions, research residencies, workshop design and social media content creation. My work experience includes project research, digital communication, documentary film production and post-production, set design, multi-media content creation and the design and facilitation of interdisciplinary events. In 2022 I successfully attended a residency in the Atacama Desert in Chile, collaborating with the local community to research and record the precious biosphere and the destructive affect of mining. In 2021 I designed and implemented an artist residency program in Scotland, gathering researchers onto a remote island to engage with the local ecologies. I have attained an Internship in the award winning studio NowHere Media in Berlin, experts in creation of immersive documentaries for Virtual and Augmented Reality. I have over 5 years of experience working in artist Tom Hammick's studio in London.
Projects
  • Occupations of Uninhabited space
    Occupations of Uninhabited spaceFilm stills of � 'Occupations of Uninhabited Space' � A short film in progress Inspired by Ursula Le Guinn and other feminist sci-fi brainspirals Contemplating imaginaries of future beings of a functioning utopia “If you like you can read it as a thought-experiment. The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future – indeed Schrödinger’s most famous thought-experiment goes to show that the “future,” on the quantum level,
  • DA # 9 Digital Anthropologies: A Call For Artistic Peace Makers
    DA # 9 Digital Anthropologies: A Call For Artistic Peace MakersAs artists, researchers, comrades and companions, what matters more than ever are the silent qualities of our practices, research processes, democratic choices. Silence is not emptiness, but the more-than sonic quality that shifts the mode of attention towards the potentiality of peace. Silence becomes the main passage towards a desirable future. Democratic values, art making and research endeavours are threatened: how does a more- than-human assembly feel, think, act silently? Opening a passage
  • Immersive Installation/ Performance: ‘On the Digital Ruins of Nature we build a Shrine...’ in collaboration with Anna Ivanaova.
    Immersive Installation/ Performance: ‘On the Digital Ruins of Nature we build a Shrine...’ in collaboration with Anna Ivanaova.Set Design/ Installation based upon an environmental anthropology research project contemplating future imaginaries of an earth whereby ‘nature’ no longer exists. Natural entities and ‘spaces’ have become mythologized and worshipped as spirits of a world that once was. For this project we spent months collecting discarded digital machines and other non-degradable materials from the streets of Berlin and built a shrine using found objects. The exhibition was an immersive performance whereby we op
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Work history
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    Research ResidencyLa Wayaka Current
     - San Pedro de Atacama, Antofagasta, ChileFreelance
    Collaborating with the local community to research and record the precious biosphere and the destructive affect of the mining of lithium, and other minerals, on the environment and community.
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    Communications, Guest SupportStiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
     - Berlin, GermanyFreelance
    Guest Communication and assistance Workshop Assistance Speaker in Panel Discussion
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Skills
  • Research Projects
  • Writing
  • Academic Writing
  • Creative Assistance
  • Communication Arts
  • Film
  • Film Editing
  • Field Recording
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Multimedia Design
Education
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    Masters of ArtsHMKW Berlin
     - Berlin, Germany
    Visual and Media Anthropology
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    Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of Leeds
     - Leeds, United Kingdom
    History of Art