'Transeuntis Mundi' exhibit takes viewers around the world
Mar. 12—An award-winning new media exhibit has taken over the Leland Gallery inside Georgia College & State University's Ennis Hall this month.
"Transeuntis Mundi," a work by Dr. Candida Borges (of Brazil and the United States) and Gabriel Mario Velez (from Colombia), uses technology to capture the sound and visual memory of people's cultural expressions. With the help of virtual reality, those who attend the exhibit can experience sights and sounds in four countries across four different continents.
As described on the exhibit's website (transeuntismundi.com), the project is "a journey about how mobility through space and time has created geographies and the actual transcultural and transnational humanity." The use of the word journey makes sense when one learns that the exhibit's title comes from the Latin for "passerby of the world," or more simply, a nomad.
As virtual reality technology has become more accessible over the last few years, artists' ability to utilize VR in their works has grown as well. "Transeuntis Mundi" uses immersive 360-degree technology, including visual and sound recordings taken from the locations highlighted in the exhibit. Sites include Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, New York City, Bogota, Colombia, and London, England. The recordings are composed together to create virtual reality works, videos, photographs, sound art, musical compositions and performance to immerse observers "into an experience beyond their space and time."
"Transeuntis Mundi" will be available for viewing locally through Thursday at the Leland Gallery on Ennis Hall's main floor. Ennis Hall is on West Hancock Street right next door to the Magnolia Ballroom. Hours for the exhibit's remaining days, as posted outside the gallery, are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
