Andrew Yip Gaza | Strip, 2021, WebGL and WebAR applications
Andrew Yip, project director and lead artist
Courtney Bowd, UI and UX design
Simo Jurisic, developer
Artwork Link: http://qattanfoundation.org/Gaza/
This work was produced as part of Palestine From Above exhibition
Gaza | Strip visualises socio-cultural data depicting the impacts of the 2014 Gaza War on the peoples of the Gaza Strip. The data was sourced from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs during a 2019 research visit conducted by the Palestine from the Sky research group, convened by the AM Qattan Foundation. The visualisation comprises two applications: an interactive web version for online engagement and an augmented reality table for exhibition. By using innovative digital techniques, the project aims to raise awareness of the continuing impact of war on the peoples of Gaza with diverse audiences across the world.
Bio:
Dr Andrew Yip is an artist and researcher whose work explores the application of interactive and immersive visualisation technologies to the representation of cultural heritage. His works concerning digital object reconstruction and particle accelerator data visualisation have been exhibited at major museums and galleries including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Powerhouse Museum, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the South Australian Maritime Museum, and since 2017 he has led site digitization at the excavation of the palace of the Roman Emperor Maximian Hercuilius in Serbia. Andrew’s practice is based at the University of New South Wales. He was previously Assistant Professor of Immersive Media at Coventry University, was a research fellow at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research and the Laboratory for Innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums, UNSW, and worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.